Autism and Cake (2012)

Actors

• Stephen V. Alba (actor)
• Edward Asner (actor)
• Chase Edmunds (actor)
• Joe Estevez (actor)
• Marvin Kaplan (actor)
• Raymond Merritt (actor)
• Mark Monroe (actor)
• Stephen Monroe (actor)
• Leighton R. Shields (actor)
• Arnold Weiss (actor)
• Lorilynn Failor (actress)
• Edith Fields (actress)
• Lauren Katz (actress)
• Joyce Lakin (actress)
• Marilyn McIntyre (actress)

Genres

• Drama
• Short

Temple Grandin (2010)

Actors

• Butch Anderson (actor)
• Charles Baker (actor)
• Nolan Bennett (actor)
• Brian Bentley (actor)
• Patrick Bertucci (actor)
• David Blackwell (actor)
• David Born (actor)
• Fred Bothwell (actor)
• Gerry Robert Byrne (actor)
• D.J. Castillo (actor)
• Kurt Cole (actor)
• Brady Coleman (actor)
• Michael D. Conway (actor)
• Michael Costello (actor)
• William Akey (actor)

Genres

• Biography
• Drama

Taglines:

Autism gave her a vision. She gave it a voice.
What made her different made her exceptional.

Quotes:

Eustacia: Different, not less.::Dr. Carlock: Different, not less.

Temple Grandin: My name is Temple Grandin. I'm not like other people. I think in pictures and I connect them.

Temple Grandin: ...They'll be very calm. Nature is cruel but we don't have to be; we owe them some respect. I touched the first cow that was being stunned. In a few seconds it was going to be just another piece of beef, but in that moment it was still an individual. It was calm... and then it was gone. I became aware of how precious life was. I thought about death and I felt close to God. I don't want my thoughts to die with me. I want to have done something.

Red Harris (of "Cattle Magazine"): I don't normally tell people what I'm going to write but Miss Grandin, this is a masterpiece.

Mr. Peters: Does she have to chalk the walls?

Temple Grandin: Spooked cattle don't act straight. They get bruised, scraped, drowned... that all cost money. It takes a good half an hour to calm a herd, and that all cost money too. It's not a good way to run a stockyard. I believe what's good for cattle is also good for business.

Temple Grandin: Of course they're gonna get slaughtered. You think we'd have cattle if people didn't eat 'em everyday? They'd just be funny-lookin' animals in zoos. But we raise them for us. That means we owe them some respect. Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be. I would'nt want to have my guts ripped out by a lion, I'd much rather die in a slaughterhouse if it was done right.::Dr. Carlock: It seems to me that you should be the one to design... the slaughterhouse...::Temple Grandin: [interrupting] We can easily do a way where they don't feel pain and they don't get scared.::Dr. Carlock: Did you hear what I said, Temple? I think you're the one who should design it.

[Temple tries to leave the funeral]::Eustacia: Temple, are you alright?::Temple Grandin: I'm leaving now.::Eustacia: It isn't over yet.::Temple Grandin: I said goodbye when I saw him, he isn't there. I've got him in my mind.

Grandin, Temple Filmography

• The Ghosts in Our Machine
  2013, role: actress , character name: Herself - Professor of Animal Science, Colorado State University Designer of Livestock Handling Equipment
• In the Woods
  2013, role: actress
• Speciesism: The Movie
  2013, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Generation A: Portraits of Autism and the Arts
  2012, role: actress
• The Weatherwax Legacy
  2011, role: actress
• When Animals Adopt
  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Temple Grandin
  2010, role: writer
• Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education
  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards
  2010, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Temple Grandin
  2010, role: writer
• Sólskinsdrengurinn
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself - Interviewee
• Arts: A Film About Possibilities, Disabilities and the Arts
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• The Horse Boy
  2009, role: actress , character name: Herself
• A Is for Autism
  1992, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Temple Grandin:

"You gotta bleed 'em in 60 seconds or less."

"The head must be dead. I can't stress that enough."

"I'm wondering where the next Einstein is going to be. He's going to be driving a FedEx truck."

"I thought I could fix everything with engineering."

"A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis."

"I am a big believer in early intervention."

"Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation."

"Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that."

"The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play; I'm always in a play."

"People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet."

"Autism is an extremely variable disorder."

"There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label."

"Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach."

"I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff."

"What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world."

"When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior."

"Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems."

"There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics."

"I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me."

"Research is starting to show that a child should be engaged at least 20 hours a week. I do not think it matters which program you choose as long as it keeps the child actively engaged with the therapist, teacher, or parent for at least 20 hours a week."