... Tom, like the parents of autistic children, polished Laura's little glass shell, Jim is the mentor that helps Laura embrace her true passion, and Jim symbolizes the breaking of her horn, the hammer that shatters her fragile cocoon of glass. In this way, Temple Grandin and Laura are similar in their path of discovering themselves, accepting and manipulating their introversion, and ... ...

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