Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by social-interaction difficulties, communication challenges, and a tendency to want to engage in repetitive behaviors. However, symptoms and their severity vary widely across these three core areas. Taken together, they may result in relatively mild challenges for someone on the high functioning end of the autism spectrum. For others, symptoms may be more severe, as when repetitive behaviors and lack of spoken language interfere with everyday life. People diagnosed with Autism Spectrum disorder are sensory-based thinkers, and sensitive hearing just like animals. People with Autism can get over stimulated with noise and lots of people, which can result in a meltdown. Meltdowns are sometimes mistaken for temper tantrums, and are sometimes punished for having a meltdown.
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Temple Grandin as the Autistic professor at Colorado State University, that made handing animals with squeeze chutes more humane. In Dr. Temple Grandin's book, "Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior", Grandin examines the surprising similarities between an animal's mind and an autistic mind—her own. Autistic people are closer to animals than normal people are. This may sound like a cruel judgment, the sort of thing a cold-hearted clinician would say, but it isn't. It's an acute observation, more importantly, because it comes from an autistic person. Dr. Grandin suggests, her autism puts her somewhere between normal human mentality and animal mentality, not as a matter of IQ but as a matter of perception and emotion. Being closer to animals isn't necessarily a bad thing. After all, that's what makes Grandin such an uncanny translator of animal behavior. Dr. Temple Grandin's claim that animals typically behave like autistic humans. She also claims that autism helps her understand and empathize with animals, who think in pictures, better than non-autistic
Temple Grandin as the Autistic professor at Colorado State University, that made handing animals with squeeze chutes more humane. In Dr. Temple Grandin's book, "Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior", Grandin examines the surprising similarities between an animal's mind and an autistic mind—her own. Autistic people are closer to animals than normal people are. This may sound like a cruel judgment, the sort of thing a cold-hearted clinician would say, but it isn't. It's an acute observation, more importantly, because it comes from an autistic person. Dr. Grandin suggests, her autism puts her somewhere between normal human mentality and animal mentality, not as a matter of IQ but as a matter of perception and emotion. Being closer to animals isn't necessarily a bad thing. After all, that's what makes Grandin such an uncanny translator of animal behavior. Dr. Temple Grandin's claim that animals typically behave like autistic humans. She also claims that autism helps her understand and empathize with animals, who think in pictures, better than non-autistic