The author, herself autistic, expands on themes of her previous book, Autism; An Inside-Out Approach , explaining how the senses of a person with autism work, suggesting that they are stuck at an early development stage common to everyone. Williams claims that most people move on from a system of sensing to a system of interpretation to make sense of the world; in doing so, they gain the means to cope with the world but lose various abilities which people with autism retain. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.