Temple Grandin is truly an inspiring individual. Through her dedicated research, want for better treatment of animals, and her gift of autism she has helped to humanize half the slaughterhouses and livestock farms across America. In this book she has given great insight into ‘the ways that animals think and perceive things versus the average human, while also giving insight into the mind of an autistic person. Autistic pedple often have trouble relating to or feeling comfortable around other people. — ptimule They seem to think and respond (few things)in very similar ways to animals, however, This ‘was not immediately known to Temple Grandin, it took a good part of her life for her to realize what a gift her autism could be. She did know early in life that she wanted to work with animals, According to Grandin (2005), “Animals in Translation comes out of the forty years I’ve spent with animals. It’s different from any book I’ve read about animals, mostly because I’m different from every other professor who works with animals. Autistic people can think the way animals think. Of course, we also think the way people think — we aren’t that different from normal humans. Autism is kind of a way station on the road from animals to humans, which puts autistic people like me in a perfect position to translate “animal talk” into English. I can tell people why their animals are doing the things they do” (p.6). Animals and people perceive the world in very different ways. People develop schemas and ideas of things, become used to them and don’t look at each little detail of something. They are also pretty oblivious to the animals’ feelings. “Normal” people are also proven to be fairly blind to things that they aren’t paying attention to, This is a problem that Temple Grandin noticed in many animal handlers. To her they seemed like obvious and elementary mistakes but that is because she could see the squeeze chute or whatever contraption through the eyes of the