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===Diagnosis=== Grandin was not formally diagnosed with autism until her adulthood. When she was two, the only formal diagnosis given to her was "brain damage",<ref name="emergence">{{cite book |last1=Grandin |first1=Temple |last2=Scariano |first2=Margaret M. |title=Emergence: Labeled Autistic |page=[https://archive.org/details/emergencelabeled00gran/page/91 91] |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |year=1996 |isbn=9780446671828 |url=https://archive.org/details/emergencelabeled00gran/page/91 }}</ref><ref name="wrongplanet">{{cite web |url=https://wrongplanet.net/interview-with-temple-grandin/ |title=Interview with Temple Grandin |date=January 2, 2006 |access-date=April 14, 2019 |archive-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105222356/https://wrongplanet.net/interview-with-temple-grandin/ |url-status=live }}</ref> a finding finally dismissed through [[brain imaging|cerebral imaging]] at the [[University of Utah]] by the time she turned 63 in 2010.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Autistic Brain |url=https://archive.org/details/autisticbrainthi0000gran |url-access=registration |last=Grandin |first=Temple |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |year=2013 |isbn=978-0547636450}}</ref> While Grandin was still in her mid-teens, her mother chanced upon a diagnostic checklist for autism. After reviewing the checklist, Grandin's mother hypothesised that Grandin's symptoms were best explained by the disorder. Grandin was later determined to be an [[autistic savant]].<ref name="emergence" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/researchers-reveal-first-brain-study-of-temple-grandin/ |title=Researchers reveal first brain study of Temple Grandin |last=Hughes |first=Virginia |date=October 14, 2012 |website=SpectrumNews.org |publisher=[[Simons Foundation]] |access-date=April 14, 2019 |archive-date=August 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821131846/https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/researchers-reveal-first-brain-study-of-temple-grandin/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-makes-temple-grandins-brain-special-76672628/ |title=What Makes Temple Grandin's Brain Special? |last=Nuwer |first=Rachel |author-link=Rachel Nuwer |date=October 17, 2012 |newspaper=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]] |access-date=April 14, 2019 |archive-date=August 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821135548/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-makes-temple-grandins-brain-special-76672628/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/a-little-hard-science-from-the-big-easy-temple-grandins-brain-and-transgenic-sniffer-mice/ |title=A Little Hard Science from the Big Easy: Temple Grandin's Brain and Transgenic Sniffer Mice |last=Stix |first=Gary |date=October 19, 2012 |website=ScientificAmerican.com |publisher=Springer Nature |access-date=April 14, 2019 |archive-date=July 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703130352/https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/talking-back/a-little-hard-science-from-the-big-easy-temple-grandins-brain-and-transgenic-sniffer-mice/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://discovermagazine.com/2013/april/2-exploring-temple-grandins-brain |title=Exploring Temple Grandin's Brain |last=McGowan |first=Kat |date=March 13, 2013 |website=[[Discover Magazine]] |publisher=Kalmbach Publishing |access-date=April 14, 2019 |archive-date=September 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925092758/https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/exploring-temple-grandins-brain/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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