Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism (Unabridged) Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism (Unabridged)

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. In this unprecedented book, Grandin writes from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person. She tells us how she managed to breach the boundaries of autism to function in the outside world. What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who gracefully bridges the gulf between her condition and our own while shedding light on our common identity.

"There are innumerable astounding facets to this remarkable book...Displaying uncanny powers of observation...[Temple Grandin] charts the differences between her life and the lives of those who think in words."--Philadelphia Inquirer

GENRE
Nonfiction
NARRATOR
DM
Deborah Marlowe
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
09:07
hr min
RELEASED
2009
September 29
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
561.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Josey86 ,

Love this Author

She has a little too much faith in the good of certain religious practices such as giving a child a “what would Jesus do” necklace or bracelet to help them be good. This is overly simplistic and has not been proven to make any child (neurotypical or neurospicy) “be good.” A lot of neurospicy folks have been really damaged by religion in a way she was lucky to not experience, but she also doesn’t acknowledge the history of abuse toward people like her that continues today.

However, this is a wonderful look at one of the first autistic kids kept at home. She acknowledges that most kids like her during her childhood were locked away. She admits that she worries about ASD kids being automatically sent to special ed instead actually educated, which is a concern I share. She even mentions at one point that her mother wrote a book as well. I went and looked it up. I am intrigued to take that for a spin. It would be so interesting to hear about the same events from the outside.

I loved her discussion of the scientific fact that if the genetic components of neurodivergence were “edited out” (a eugenics idea that is greatly supported by autism speaks), we would also edit out all of human creativity, ingenuity, and invention. It certainly makes sense that in a country with a school system designed to create factory worker yes-men, this would be an appealing idea. Too bad that means we would most certainly “edit out” all the people who actually want it edited out.

Fun and worth the money ,

Wonderful book!

Amazing book and perfect auto book! Really helped me understand my partner who has autism

Mopedimus ,

Informative and honest.

I found Dr. Grandin’s book to be extremely beneficial. Her breadth of knowledge between animal husbandry and the Spectrum was very eye opening to the issues I have. Dr. Grandin, thank you for your contribution to society, and thank you for being a very positive example for so many different subsets of people.

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