I like challenging myself to learn about new subjects, then to use my learning experience to help the reader understand the science.Īnn: And Departure #2: collaboration? How did you divide up the work? But science itself was new to me when I started writing about it in the mid-1990s. And you’re right, it’s a new area for me (though in my research on Freud for The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes I taught myself the state of neuroscience circa 1890). Richard: Believe it or not, Temple has never really addressed the brain as a subject unto itself. As I always tell my writing students, if you want to illustrate the norm, use an anomaly-so in this case, the autistic brain is the anomaly that we use to investigate the whole nature of the brain. Hence the title: The Autistic Brain. But we also wanted the book to have a broader audience than the autistic community. Richard: The immediate subject is the autistic brain. Before you do, Jessa and Ann have some questions.Īnn: Richard, this subject is a departure for you. Richard and Temple Grandin have co-authored a book, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum, which is just out and which you should definitely and immediately buy.
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