simple emotions, too. That’s why normal people deseribe us as innocent. An autistic person’s feelings are direct and open, just like animal feelings. We don’t hide our feelings, and we aren’t ambivalent. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to have feelings of love and hate for the same person” (p.88-89). This gives such an insight into both an autistic person’s point of view and also explains a lot about animal and human relationships. An exception to this is that animals, can feel both fear and curiosity at the same time. In animals curiosity is a core emotion, and so is fear. I love that she wrote this boa ip hef own svay? and talks like an autistic person would. ‘The book jumps aro} ject a little but you can tell how much she cares in every word. I watched ‘a movie on Temple Grandin at my mother’s suggestion in preparation for reading Animals in Translation. My mom has worked with multiple autistic children a new of Temmple Granger thought the movie would help. I'm a visual leames ais it definitly di ipetso really made it possible for me o picture her squeeze machine, the different cattle machifes she redesigned, as well as how the world seems to an autistic person — and how they seem 4 others I was eaing, So much could be writen avo stare emple Grandin has diseovefed and accomplished through her years of interest and curiosity. She touched on 4 many d{fferendfaimals in this book, mentioning fered lite facts she had discovereg(f her own way. Another big difference between humans and animals that Temple Grandin mentioned is that she doesn’t think animals have the defense mechanisms Sigmund Freud deseribed in humans, which are projection, displacement, repression, and denial. Grandin (2005) “Defense mechanisms defend against anxiety, and all defense mechanisms depend on repression in some way. Using repression, you push whatever it is you're afraid of down into your unconscious mind and focus your conscious mind on a stand in” (p.91). The reason she believes animals don’t