A peak into the life of an autistic youth who went on to prove society wrong by excelling academically with a Masters in Animal Husbandry and a Doctorate. Plus designing a humane system for beef slaughter which is used in half the slaughterhouses in the States.
She sees things in pictures and lines and connects the dots very well. And details and words. She can memorise them at a glance. Not good in Math (too abstract) or French, she's real great in Science.
Played by Claire Danes and was the opening film of the MINDS Film Festival 2017 with Catherine O'Hara as the aunt. She invented the squeeze machine after observing how cows at her aunt's ranch calm down after being in the machine.
She overcame her fear and went to college where she tested fellow classmates' reactions to the squeeze machine, and sought companionship with a fellow blind classmate, who sees in sounds.
The only woman to work in male-dominated farms, she designed systems based on her observations of cattle moo-ing (and wrote a thesis about it), persevered by getting a press pass in order to access these farms after graduation because it was only for male access, her favourite Science teacher's mantra about doors opening stayed with her throughout life.
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