Temple Grandin, perhaps the world's best known person with autism, drew an overflow crowd to her UO talk.
Grandin was invited to campus by religious studies professor Mark Unno, whose winter-term class "The Bull in the China Shop" looked at East Asian views of how humans, animals, society and nature are related.
Students in the class read Grandin's "Thinking in Pictures," which describes how her autism has informed her deep understanding of animal suffering, especially livestock.
Links:
Watch Temple Grandin's UO talk: "My Experiences with Autism and Animals"
Watch an interview with Temple Grandin on UO Today.
Visit Temple Grandin's web site.
Learn about the HBO movie, "Temple Grandin."
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