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People who aren't autistic always ask me about the moment I realized I could understand the way animals think. Read the first page
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By Nicholas Dormaar (British Columbia, Canada.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (Hardcover)
Animals in Translation: Using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behavior.I will never think about animals, and about autism, and about "normal" people quite the same way again. This is a landmark book. The book is badly organized. You will have to read every page. You may not be interested in the long pages where she talks about slaughter houses, but then right in the middle of a paragraph you suddenly come across a bit of wisdom that you would not want to have missed. Right then you must underline it or you will never find it back again. The upshot of this book is that animals do not have a fully functioning frontal lobe, nor do autistic people, and she tells us throughout the book what that is like, over and over again until you start to get a deep understanding of what it is like. We get a better understanding of ourselves too. The frontal lobe "puts it all together", and having put it all together, we race over the details like a speed boat over water. We do not see the details. An autistic person on the other hand, can not help but see them. He sees all the details, and only the details. He is overwhelmed by them. He sees all forty shades of brown. He can not see the forest for the trees, and more trees, and more trees. He hears every tone. He smells every odor. His life is a jumble of details. As you might expect, her book is rich in details about her own life and about all the animals she knows and when you emerge at the other end of the book, you feel immersed. Being a "normal" person you can not remember all the details, but you "know" something about these people's lives, and about animals' lives in a way you could never get from a text book. And yet, at the same time, she also has a doctorate and she does her own research. She has the training to write the text book, but then, being autistic, she can not. She does not hold the whole picture and therefore it remains a badly organized book. That is the message. That is what it is like to be autistic. That is what it is like to be an animal. Nicholas Dormaar
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This review is from: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries Of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (Paperback)
Very informative but can be repetitive. I do think that the dog on the front cover is a bit misleading though because she primary talks about cattle.
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Animals in Translation is a wonderful book,
By Annie-Jessie "1stbluecat" (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (Hardcover)
I couldn't put it down. Ms. Grandin's thoughts on why and how she discovers what comforts and distresses animals, and how she puts things right, is refreshing. She believes her autism gives her an advantage, because she had started with no more expectation of animals' behaviour than she has of individual humans behaving like "people". Her staightforward judgment that humans be responsibile for domestic animals' quality of life AND DEATH, because we created them for our needs, has done more to alleviate animal suffering than a dozen PETA's.
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