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...people--the ability to read the internal state of another person comes only after long struggle, and even then most of them fail to detect the subtle signals that normal individuals unconsciously broadcast. "I had no idea that other people communicated through subtle eye movements," says autistic engineer Temple Grandin, "until I read it in a magazine five years...
...Grandin is an assistant professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University
Especially if the subject is talking about dating a serial killer or building a friendlier abattoir. Morris is drawn to the Frankensteinian: inventors, self-styled scientists and folks on weird quests of self-discovery. They can be creepy, like Kent, but their stories are moving too. Take Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who empathizes with animals because she thinks in images, which, she contends, is how they think as well. She invented the "stairway to heaven," a slaughterhouse design that uses optical illusions to lead cattle calmly to their death, yet has a bond with the beasts born...
...beautiful looking. Morris' work is not only fun--in an interview he talks gleefully about a coming episode, "Clyde Roper, Squid Hunter!"--but also artful, interspersed with haunting staged scenes like that of the cattle posed regally on a set in Grandin's episode. "It's the reverse of Unsolved Mysteries, where the narrator says, 'She walked through the door,' and a woman walks through a door. I try to capture an idea in images. It's dreamscape...
Members of the audience--which included many psychologists and parents of autistic children--said they appreciated Grandin's personal account of autism...