Grandin Introduction To Animals Summary

The author introduces themselves as a woman on the autistic spectrum. She describes her introduction to animals, and how she sees the world in a similar way to animals. Grandin explains the similarities between how people with autism and animals think; explaining that both are very detailed oriented. She then goes over the things that distract animals. This list allows the reader to watch the thought process of animals. She then moves on to the biological reasons that animals react to this list. All of these connections and ideas are important because it starts to make the reader think about the consciousness of animals. The comparison of animals to a certain type of human grants neuro-typical people to understand thoughts differently. She