It also touches provocatively and illuminatingly on questions in a number of related areas of inquiry, including the difference between visual and verbal intelligence, what emotions are intrinsic and which ones are acquired through social transaction, and the difficulties and rewards of inter-species communication. As testimony, hers is the more valuable for being among the few first-hand accounts of living with autism, a disorder that effects one in 88 people, which is to say, millions, most of whom communicate with difficulty and to a limited degree.
This was followed soon after by her own account, Thinking in Pictures, whose merger of science and autobiography give Grandin's writings their typical quiddity, and later by the superb Animals in Translation, which proposes that autism can provide insight into animal behavior, as well as The Autistic Brain, published this year by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She was first brought to the attention of the larger public by an essay about her called "Anthropologist from Mars" in the book of the same title it was her own self-description as an autistic person trying to negotiate the normal world.
Temple Grandin, the world's best known person with autism, is the author of more than a half-dozen books, and the editor of as many others, as well being the subject of a NOVA special and a biographical documentary on HBO.
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