The Conceptual Word

The Main Idea 

Hello fellow students!
This blog is a (belated) reflection piece on the movie we watched Sunday night in Signs and Wonders, Temple Grandin. For those of you who couldn't make it, I definitely recommend that you go to the media room and get it so that you may watch it. 
This is my blog analysis of Temple Grandin, and why I loved it so much.

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In a nutshell, Temple Grandin is about a young woman who shares the same name as the movie title (who'd o' guessed?), and suffered from autism. She was absolutely brilliant, but the written word was a huge challenge for her. She learned via pictures, and once she saw something, she was basically able to accurately recite or describe whatever that something was. 

Although this trait was greatly magnified for Temple Grandin because of her autism, a lot of people have similar problems with learning, because of the means of general education. For instance, I am a visual-doing learner. It is hard for me to learn from reading because it is merely letters on a page to me. However, I can easily memorize things that are picture diagrams, or cartoon type things. Since my parents know that, one day, my dad came hope with a surprise present for me: a physics text book that was in the form of an manga cartoon book. It was fantastic! I would sit for long periods of time studying the pictures and reading the short text. 

That's one of the reasons I think that I loved the movie Temple Grandin so much; I was able to relate pretty easily. Basically, I learn through pictures, and I found it extremely cool that I was able to watch someone who had a reading disability succeed in life. 

Just because you aren't an avid reader, doesn't mean that you are not intelligent. This movie was incredible at showing that, because Temple was, in fact, an incredible scientist and inventor. She was super intelligent even though people doubted her intelligence, even as a child.

The End?

Basically, do not allow other people to bully you because you have trouble reading. You might not be an avid learner of the written word, however, you may be a genius of the conceptual word: the words told through illustrations and spoken stories.

Be strong. Be confident. Be who God has designed you to be.

Blessings,

~Katy