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Temple Grandin has explained in interviews the connection between her Autism and her success in her work designing humane slaughterhouses.
Most of us are used to a much more verbal approach to thinking and to life in general. She describes herself as the opposite. Hence the title of one of her books “Thinking in Pictures”.
Because this is the way that animals think, she is able to empathize with how they see things. So, she can go through a facility and point out aspects of design which would frighten or panic the cows.
Don’t forget, she lives in Arizona and out in the West, there is generally a different attitude about the concepts of animals being raised for food (and obviously necessitating slaughter).
She basically wants to give the animals as peaceful a death as possible so eliminating design flaws (from the animals’ point of view) is helping toward that end.
Hers is definitely an interesting point of view and because she is so intelligent, she is a really good “translator” between Autistics and the rest of the world.