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"Meat-based proteins"?? Do you mean ANIMALS??

Seriously? Now three people, including Temple herself, spout harmful rhetoric about autistic people. Rimland: "recovered autistic" and "much less autistic-sounding now." Carlock: "she found her way out of autism." Grandin: "(many people) believe that 'once autistic, always autistic.' This dictum has meant sad and sorry lives for many children diagnosed, as I was in early life, as autistic." What is going on???

Wow. Four pages in and I'm furious. Warning: there will be profanity ahead.



On Bernard Rimland: OH MY GOD WHY WAS HIS FOREWORD ALLOWED IN TEMPLE GRANDIN'S BOOK!????? He just fetishizes parts of autism while also being openly glad "with how much less autistic-sounding she is today than she was when I first met her." Also what the HELL is a "recovered autistic"!?

Already the author has translated the French word, "occultisme," into the English, "occultism." You know. To be helpful.

I couldn't even make it through the introduction.

So far, my feelings reading this are, "Yeah, this is a really important topic I hadn't given nearly so much thought to! I should definitely read a book about it," because this book isn't particularly informative, despite all the research the author seems to have done. A lot of the information thus far are things I could have said myself, before reading anything about it. Still, it's a short enough book.