It has been 1 week since my very first Temple Grandin conference. The energy in the conference room when she was present ~~PHENOMONAL. Unlike anything I have ever experienced. I will undoubtedly seek out my NEW FAVORITE sensory experience ~ at every turn. Where I want to be. At the foot of Temple listening to her preach!
Her no-nonsense common sense approach is simply brilliant. She talks about much more than Autism at her conferences! Her commentary on the human condition is self-effacing, precise and easy to digest! She leaves the audience hungry for more…and not willing to take seconds from the other speakers. Most everyone is there soley for the GRANDIN SHOW!! I hope that we as an audience take her speeches, her ‘food for thought’ and implement it into our daily routines and speech. Change the conversation in your communities! Set the table for understanding every chance you get! Talk like Temple…..draw people the visual pictures they NEED to understand you and/or your Autistic child.
We ALL do it at least once a day I am sure. Describe Autism to someone in the community as you navigate your daily activities. I am very talkative and find myself “talking Aut ALOT”!! Precisely why I have written my kids books…we NEED to change the dialogue. Heck we need to START the dialogue. People get overwhelmed by “The Puzzle piece.” I believe people assume they will never “get-it” so, they do not even try to UNDERSTAND!! 
Well, fortunately that is changing. Alot of people are working together to bring mass awareness!This is where Temple has made herself so useful to this world. Her way of experiencing the world is very clear cut. No puzzle no mystery. She makes no bones about it. If we “Trumpet” her words of wisdom ~enlightenment will spread!
This conference was very timely for me. In that I was able to hand deliver Temple some Autism Community Sunshine: 3 major creations #1 AutismHWY.com a powerfully positive place for spectrumites! #2. ANCA’S Naturally Autistic Magazine! The 1st magazine created for AND BY Autistic people! WOW ( I know she loves that!) & #3. Our amazingly COOL Autism SHINES Mural in Chattanooga TN. Created by Autistic people and their families! She needed to see that we are working for her!! In support of our amazingly cool Autistic Population!! Supporting them with positivity and FUN
I also took extensive notes of ‘Temple speak’…for my NEW children’s coloring book that Rachel Walker and I are putting together for all the starving kid’s!! Starving for information on AUTISM! lol… A buffet of info that no one has ever fed them before.I cannot wait to serve them this banquet of ASD insight funneled through the fun visual pictures Ms. Grandin provides!! Thankyou Temple…for helping people experience the full flavor!
