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The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow

Ingrid @ August 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet

Dr. Temple Grandin is possibly the most famous autistic person to date. The Woman Who Thinks Like a Cow is a Horizon (BBC) episode about her life, which mainly deals with how she’s been able to cope with the difficulties inherent in Autism as well as use her unique abilities to craft an exciting [...]

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Positively Autistic

Ingrid @ August 11, 2009 # 2 Comments

Estée Klar from The Joy of Autism has posted a video (which aired in 2008 on CBC) called Positively Autistic on her site. It shows what it’s like to be Autistic but from the perspective of adult Autistics, which most people aren’t exposed to. Some wonderful quotes from clip 1:

The lack of positive [...]

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