Now that it's summer and I'm enjoying "funemployment" (to steal an expression from the Mormon Child Bride) I'm finally working my way through my Netlfix queue. i'm great about he watch instanly queue but the DVDs seem to sit on my counter for months.
Here is a great review of it. It is based on her book, Thinking in Pictures which I read ages ago. Temple perseveres through life in a time when mother's were being blamed for autism in their children and were being told to institutionalize their children ASAP. Being an autistic support teacher, this movie has been recommended to me by many different people. Our classroom assistants even got to watch it as an inservice one day. It didn't disappoint and of course I found myself crying through it as she struggles to be understood and especially in some scenes with her mother. I definitely recommend it and I love that it could give people a more realistic looking depiction of a person with autism, beyond the Rainman. Claire Danes really captured the nuances of her behavior: her loud unmodulated voice, the difficulty of sustaining eye contact, even her odd gait.
Anyways, I recently watched Temple Grandin, an autistic woman, which originally aired as an HBO special.
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Anyone out there seen it? What did you think?
2 comments:
I haven't seen it, but it needs to go on my blockbuster list now. Thanks for the recommendation!
I loved that movie. It was especially tender to me because at the time we were learning about behavior difficulties our youngest baby might have as a result of his unique genetic make up.
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