By Temple Grandin Summary Emergence: Labeled By Autistic is a story written by an autistic individual named Temple Grandin. The story is about her personal life experiences growing up as an autistic person. Her perspective in the story is both of being autistic is both personal and observations that she made about other autistic individuals. She walks us through each stage of her life and the challenges she faced and how she overcame them. She finds that like many autistic people she does not tolerate physical touch from other people. She struggled with this most of her life. She created a machine called the ”Squeeze Machine” that helped her deal with touch (for animals and individuals with ASD) The story is about her personal life experiences growing up as an autistic person. Her perspective in the story is both of being autistic is both personal and observations that she made about other autistic individuals. She walks us through each stage of her life and ...