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Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism

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Author: Temple Grandin
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book

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ISBN: 0307275655
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.858820092
EAN: 9780307275653
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Publication Date: January 10, 2006
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Product 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 Temple Grandin 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 delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.

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Not so November 9, 2009
Shrink (Danville, CA)
4 out of 9 found this review helpful

It might come as a shock but Dr. Grandin doesn't have (and, in fact, never had) autism. She might suffer from mild oddities and peculiarities, anxiety, and even repetitive and intrusive obsessive thoughts. That is not enough, though, to qualify her for the diagnosis of Autism. At the core of Autistic disorder is lack of "theory of mind", in other words, inability to develop insight into own thinking, comprehend others' thinking, and be able to compare the two. One either wouldn't have the disorder to be able to write a book about inner workings of autistic psyche for non autistics OR have it and never recognize own deficiencies explicitly defined by the diagnosis. It can't be both, and I suspect the former is true. Sorry, Dr. Grandin. BTW, I am a pediatric psychiatrist with more than 20 years of experience treating Autistic disorders.

5 out of 5 stars

Very helpful in understanding my son July 31, 2009
Jennifer Mills (Cincinnati, OH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have a 4 year old w/ PDD-NOS. This book opened my eyes and helped me understand my son so much. Within the first 20 pages I had so many ah-ha moments. Some of the behaviors my son has I thought was original to him until I read this book. Parts of the book can get a little dry when Dr. Gandin goes into the details of her cattle designs but it does come together. She has a great sense of humor about her experiences growing up in a time where ASD was exteremly rare. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has a child/ knows a child/ or teaches children w/ ASD. I am now able to have more of an understanding how my son's mind works and how to address his needs. I realize my son is a visual learner and life is easier for the both of us since I am not consistantly trying to explain to him in words. We look at pictures and we show things to him so he can understand social rules and social stories. Dr. Grandin is an amazing woman.

5 out of 5 stars

A must have for anyone who comes in contact with autism July 7, 2009
Wendy J. Sidwell (Rolla, MO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

This book is a must have for anyone who is lucky enough to be touched by someone with autism. It will help you to better understand how they are feeling and why they do some of the things they do. This book is so good you won't want to put it down.

I am so thankful our therapist recommended this book to us, because now I have a better understanding of what my autistic child is going through inside of her body and mind and why she does some of the things she does. It helps me not to become so frustrated with her.

Thank you, Temple, for taking the time to share your life with those of us who are blessed enough to have someone we love with autism so we can better relate to them and have a better understanding.

Very well written and fabulous to read. I am anxious to get the rest of her books!

5 out of 5 stars

Understanding Autism from the inside June 28, 2009
Lavonne Rhyneer
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This book was of interest to me in general because of friends' children with types of autism, and now I have a grandson who is on the autistic spectrum. Temple is able to explain why she needs to do certain things for herself(the squeeze machine), why certain situations are too stimulating for her or why she doesn't respond in the usual manner in a social situation. Most importantly she has used her understanding of and empathy with (especially food) animals to draw up functional working designs to manage their penning, their moving through chutes for dips or for slaughter, in order to minimize their trauma. She has created her own successful business in this field. It is a challenge to understand what it is like inside the autistic consciousness--this is a good book for some beginning of that.

5 out of 5 stars

great book May 29, 2009
Debbie Milam (Weston)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

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