What Does Temple Encounter With Disabilities

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1. When Temple was the first diagnosis was very start forward and wanted her to be institutionalized. This shows the treatment of disability, instead of offering help the doctor immediately responded to sending her away from society. 2. After the finding out that Temple was autistic they blamed the mother for her condition. This relates to the parental first encounter with disabilities as professional dominance. And how often there are negative experiences with the medical stand when they learn of the diagnosis. 3. Temple thinks in pictures and connects them. This has helped her build her own machines and make a career out of it. By showing her embrace her disability as another aspect of human diversity where she even writes about

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