As A-listers streamed out of the ballroom -- Scarlett Johansson, a somewhat weary-looking Halle Berry -- Christian Bale stopped amid them all, suddenly starstruck. "You're a genius" he said, shaking hands vigorously with Temple Grandin, the real-life autistic scientist played by Claire Danes in the HBO biopic. "It's a wonderful night" he told an interviewer. "You gotta respect this kind of attention. But she," he pointed to Grandin again. "She's the genius."
Biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who overcame the limitations imposed on her by her condition to become an expert in the field of animal husbandry. She developed an interest in cattle early in life while spending time at her Aunt and Uncle's ranch. She did not speak until age four and had difficulty right through high school, mostly in dealing with people. Her mother was very supportive as were some of her teachers. She is noted for creating her 'hug box', widely recognized today as a way of relieving stress and her humane design for the treatment of cattle in processing plants, even winning an award from PETA. Today, she is a professor at Colorado State University.
Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons. Grandin is listed in the 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in the category “Heroes”.
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