from Animals in Translation (2005)
chapter 2
That's the reason for the
special connection autistic
people like me have to
animals.
Autistic people's
frontal lobes almost
never work as well
as normal people's do,
so our brain function
ends up being somewhere
in between human and
animal. We use our animal
brains more than normal
people do, because we have
to. We don't have any choice.
Autistic people are closer to
animals than normal people are.
The price human beings pay
for having such big, fat
frontal lobes is that
normal people become
oblivious in a way animals
and autistic people aren't.
Normal people stop seeing the
details that make up the big
picture and see only the big
picture instead.
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