Temple Grandin was autistic but she wasn't like the other. She was born in Boston ,Massachusetts and graduated in Colorado State University.She holds a Ph.D. in Animal Science from the University of Illinois, which she was granted in 1989. She's also the inventor of the squeeze machine a system which tightly hugs people with sensory processing dysfunction to relive stress. She didn't speak at all until after she was three years old - and even then, her speech was idiosyncratic. Very fortunately for Temple, her parents ignored doctors' recommendations to have her institutionalized as a response to her delayed development, temper tantrums and other issues all of which, together, earned her an autism diagnosis.
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