Temple Grandin Role Model

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Everyone has a role model in life, someone to look up to, and someone that inspires people. Temple Grandin is an amazing example of a role model that everyone should have. Temple grandin is inspiring and a role model because she started off as a little girl with autism that people thought she was insane but proved everyone wrong by earning her Ph.D, becoming a scientist and professor of animal science at Colorado State University, and made a revolutionary change in the livestock industry. Temple throughout her life showed courage, strength, determination, kindness and figures out to turn her weakness into her strength. Temple Grandin is an ideal person to follow and a good role model because she never gave up and fought for what she believed in.
Temple Grandin was determined to get what she wanted and to succeed. She wanted to prove people wrong, that she wasn’t dumb and she could do good at school and do something important in the world. Temple showed determination when she kept doing her research even though people were trying to stop her. She fought through all the difficulties and kept going to fight for what she believes in. She was showing empathy for her work and wouldn’t let anyone or anything get in the way of it. “In spite of vandalism, gross out tours, and …show more content…

Temple shows everyone how to turn problems into solutions. When temple saw an opportunity she took it. She used an inspiring metaphor often and explained how something lucky is like an opening door and you have to go through it while it's still there.“But she knew a lucky break when she saw one. I call that a door opening. A door’s going to open spontaneously, and you gotta run through it before it closes.” pg.90 Temple didn’t look as autism as a disability like most people did, she look at it as an advantage and she wouldn’t like living without it. “Autism gave her these special skills. ‘Autism’ she says, ‘is part of who I am.’”

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