Temple Grandin

Temple Grandin

Introduction

Temple Grandin is a U.S. born doctor of animal sciences and renowned professor at Colorado State University. She is the best selling writer, strong activist for autism. She is also a popular livestock consultant for analyzing animal behavior. Most recently there is a biographical film made on her life that tends to describe how she was raised and how she struggled to become the useful member of the society despite her autism. Autism is considered to be one of the highly repulsive disorders that make the survival of the patient almost impossible. She has been listed among the most influential people in the world in Times 100. Her parents worked immensely in order to make her live effectively with her disorder. She was worked on her speech therapy. Grandin's quality made her learn things that seemed little for normal people but in fact said wider image of the nature.She was lucky to have mentors in her life who guided her most depressing times. She said in the movies, “My name is Temple Grandin. I'm not like other people. I think in pictures and I connect them.”Some personalities are too impressive to be ignored. Grandin's life is certainly a role model not for autistics but for every human being on earth.

Discussion

Acquiring Social Skills

To acquire social skills is something that makes one confident in the society. In the era of 50's learning manners was considered to be mandatory or a child. Regardless of their physical or mental deficiencies, the adults had to transfer the expectations to their children. Temple Grandin was able to do all the jobs in the work environment. The people like Grandin became the productive part of the society. She said, “People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.” Social skills are significant to encourage the responses that a person needs to have a productive in the world one is living. Day to day dealing depends how you behave with others and how you convince them to work with your ideas. Interpersonal and intrapersonal skills establish the requirements and their fulfillment in the context. The people have to interact with each other since human being is a social animal who cannot live by not collaborating with each other. In most of the organizations today, they propagate teamwork which is not possible until and unless one does not know how to behave with others in the defined environment. The element of communication is the centre of almost all the skills since it works as a facilitating tool to further polish or acquire other social skill. Establishing understanding helps you to live comfortably with others in the world; one cannot make one separate room for him/ her and live in isolation. People with autism have difficulties in developing understanding with others but Grandin turned her world upside down and believed that her autism actually made her excel her worldly presence.

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