Temple Grandin film and son, aged 10

[wendihouse22]

I watched the Temple Grandin film some weeks back and didn't so much "enjoy it" as felt a mixture of emotions about this excellent woman. I left it on my Sky Planner and when my husband said "will you let ds watch it" I said @no, don't think so. It's actually a bit scary in parts".

Yesterday he watched it from start to finish. Glued to the set, he was. Wasn't distressed by her distress and the hug machine and the teasing by her peers or any of it. When it finished, he wanted to see it again, there and then. IT'S A LONG FILM!

My son has ASD, OCD/Tourettes. He rarely leaves the house and his comfort zone. He's 10 years old.

We saw his psychiatrist today. DS asked him, had he seen the film "Temple Grandin" and then cited the various similarities she and he had in their own particular brand of autism. I was astonished. He took it all in; could see himself in her; and like a colleague of his Dr suggested he "might want to see that film".

My son struggles with so much of the ordinary stuff of life and is very often in his own little world. He has no friends/social relationships beyond family and yet....he totally got Temple. He's so clever in lots of ways.

Anyone else's AS kids seen the film? What did they think?

We all watched, DD is NT and 11 DS has asperger's and is 15 - I'd watched it before they saw it. I actually didn't think DS would be interested, I put it on for DD, she finds it hard sometimes to 'get' that DS isn't just annoying, lol, and I thought she'd be interested in the cows.

DS wandered through about 20 minutes into it and was really interested I kept having to pause it to have conversations about sensory stuff, deep touch and the differences in the help she got compared to how it's treated nowadays - also he was very impressed with what she achieved even though she's much more autistic than him.

I identify with just about everything in the Temple film. Temple's a lovely lady in real life, too - she's helped me with some of the work I've done. It's a very positive account, showing that with the right help and support and encouragement, many of us can make very good use of the talents that we have and bring something very useful to society.

I think that's maybe one for the future, then. It would be over DS's head ATM. Thanks.