Hi Meadowrose,
I have indeed. In fact, reading them was the first suggestion my son's neurologist gave me when he confirmed the diagnosis. I would highly recommend her books for anyone who is interested in learning more about autism.
Her books are quite insightful. Unfortunately, Todd is very low functioning. Based on where Todd is developmentally, and on Dr. Grandin's insights and those of others such as Donna Williams and Scott Barron-Cohen, I would probably wind up using tons of sentence fragments -- bare noun phrases -- to capture the feel of thinking in pictures (to borrow Grandin's description). I suspect it would make for rather difficult reading. The piece would need to be short, even by my standards, since I don't think many people would want to slog through such a writing style for very long.
It would also be a challenge to capture such a very different way of perceiving the world and interpreting the actions of other people. If I were to write such a story, I would do the best I could with it, but it would without doubt be the toughest thing I ever would have written, either in fiction or non-fiction.
I'd very much like to write such a story, and have been trying to come up with a plot that would be appropriate for it for some time now, but so far I have come up dry.
Thanks for the suggestion, Meadowrose.
Joy,
Lynn
