Review Of My Mind Is A Web Browser: How People With Autism Think

Temple Grandin once said “Autism is a part of who I am.” Not that autism defines her or controls her, but it is a part of her. Ms. Grandin was diagnosed with autism at the age of 4. Her mother realized something was wrong when she didn’t want to talk or show affection towards her instead she would rather push her mommy away. Throughout her article of “My Mind is a Web Browser: How People with Autism Think”, she tries to explain how she sees and thinks which is rather different from the non-autistic person. Temple Grandin explains that she sees the pictures as some, but other autistic people are “tape recorders” (Grandin 1). The pictures represent the visual learners while the tape recorders represent the more auditory learners. This is because …show more content…
For Christopher, I think about how he struggles to understand metaphors as well as faces. Closer to the end of the book I began to realize that he does know everything that is going on and mostly understands it. At the beginning of the book he talks about how he doesn’t lie, but by the end of the book he even admits he writes down all the rules so he can go around them and he tells white lies. He also is able to grasp what helps him calm down and get focused again, which is something that is strongly encouraged as an autistic child. For me to understand Christophers brain and how it works is that, I think of a puzzle and he just can’t seem to get the pieces to fit together and maybe he will eventually put them together if they are brought to his attention. An example of that would be at the rather end of the book when he found the letters his mother had written him and he was thinking if they belonged to another Christopher or if she wrote them before she passed. Grandin also has the same outlook on it just not as a puzzle as a “web browser” which is another segment of her article. Watching the movie helped when it came to picturing how her brain works and functions. Say someone mentions a cow Grandin will picture every cow she has ever seen. With that said I picture the chaos of ideas surrounding her and then settling into a nice organized flow throughout her brain. She began to recognize everything like a her web browser. A search is conducted then the mass of information starts to follow. She went from struggling to put the puzzle together to having it done as well as understanding it in mass detail like the Sixteenth Chapel. After reading the curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Mark Haddon) everything eventually fell into place as Christopher's mother moved back to being his life and he’s kinda coming back around to his