OLIVER SACKS An Anthropologist on Mars

An Anthropologist on Mars
What is it like to be keenly intelligent and to care deeply about science and animal life—but to feel absolutely alienated from even the simplest human emotions and interactions? Temple Grandin knows, and her experiences offer rare insight into the enigma of autism.

Grandin has made the most of her remarkable rapport with animals. “If I could snap my fingers and be non-autistic, I would not,” she said at a recent lecture. “Autism is part of who I am.”

By Oliver Sacks

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