Temple Grandin Character Analysis

At the young age of four years old, Temple Grandin was diagnosed with infantile schizophrenia, a type of autism. The doctor told Grandin's mother that Temple may never speak, may never learn, and that she should be institutionalized. Temple proved him wrong. She grew up and learned and became a truly brilliant woman. But her journey was not an easy one. She had to overcome many obstacles to get where she ended up. Temple was always very different from other people. In her social life, she was unable to connect with people due to her autism. They thought she was a freak and different from them, so they never gave her a chance. Another social obstacle that she faced was over her "squeeze machine". She was able to design a machine that made her feel calm and secure, much how a non-autistic person feels during and after a hug. Her classmates thought it was weird and the college ended up removing her machine. After much experimentation and consideration, Temple was able to make another machine to keep in her room. Other than her autism affecting her, I think that she had a hard time because she is a woman. Throughout the film, Temple was often
In school, she had to face the students that would bully her and the teachers that didn’t take her seriously. She was a brilliant woman, but she learned through pictures, and it was hard for her to grasp concepts such as French and algebra. During her masters' thesis, she had to deal with blatant sexism, rude behavior from the workers, and having to sneak in and out of the ranch because women weren’t supposed to be there. When she was proposing her cattle herding methods, she kept getting shot down because she "didn’t have enough experience" and she "didn’t know what she was talking about". They felt that it was too much money and too slow to do it her way, and she really had to fight to get