Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
Written by Temple Grandin
Narrated by Deborah Marlowe
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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.
Temple Grandin
TEMPLE GRANDIN is one of the world’s most accomplished and well-known adults with autism. She is a professor at Colorado State University and the New York Times bestselling author of several books, including The Autistic Brain, which have sold more than a million copies. Named one of Time's most influential people in 2010, the HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards.
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Reviews for Thinking in Pictures
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fascinating.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The book tries to do two things -- present the author's experiences as a person with autism and educate about autism diagnoses, treatment, and education. I think both are fine, I just don't think they combine well into a single book. Maybe because I don't have a need for the latter, and was only interested in the former, I found that discussions about medication, diet, teaching methods and such got in the way of my enjoyment. I would have preferred a book that was simply about Ms Grandin's life; for those sections I would have give 4 or 5 stars.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book is a good read and explains a great deal about how a pure visual thinking brain thinks.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is an extraordinary book - it is wonderfully written view about what is like to be autistic. Highly recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A very elucidating view into autism, from the grande dame of autistics, as it were. I completely respect her and hope that I can one day hear her speak. I'm in awe of all she accomplished. She shattered the bullet-proof plexiglass ceiling of autism, opened herself to the world and her world to us. I'm simply astounded. I wish I was one iota that smart. Pure genius.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A high-functioning autistic woman who has created a successful career designing humane livestock holding and slaughterhouse facilities shares her insights into what makes her different from other persons. Starting from an almost entirely visual thinking process, she elaborates the perceptual, social, and emotional life of an autistic. As a person with Asperger Syndrome (which is part of the autism spectrum) myself, I found this book to be both helpful and hopeful.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'm the mother of 4 kids. One with brain injury that sometimes looks like autism, one with Aspergers. Both with sensory issues that affect their lives. And a husband with Aspergers. A good friend has a severely autistic child. For me, this book has been mind-blowing. Amazing - she has made amazing progress and insights. Stunning - to see glimpses into how the brains of my children and husband work at the times when I usually just cannot understand them. It is fascinating to realize that I am reading a usually well-written book by a fully autistic woman. I am in awe of her talents and abilities, and grateful for the education she has given me.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is an interesting, important book that I completely failed to respond to. It's written by an autistic woman, and deals with what's it like to be autistic (as well as what's it's like to be a cow--the author really likes cows). I definitely learned a lot, but finishing it was painful.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5on a journey to think out-side-of-my-usual box; invitation to see things from another level adds to wider skill set for information gathering and thinking
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5when starting it, i thought temple grandin wrote rather repetitively (as many autistics), and i thought i'd never make it through this book.....but once my thinking adapted to her writing, this was a phenomenal book. I have interests in both cattle and in counseling, so HOW BIZARRE to find a book where the 2 unlikely topics intersect. Grandin not only tackles her thinking processes, but touches on religion, slaughterhouse ethics, geniuses, learning empathy, biochemistry (although dated) and other topics. fascinating reading for those who like to step into someone else's world where things are very very different... this one will stay on my bookshelf.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53.5 starsTemple Grandin is autistic, and grew up to earn a PhD in animal science. This book is an autobiography combined with information on autism, with plenty of animal anecdotes thrown in, as well. This was good. No question my interests are more in line with the animal portions of the book, but the autistic information was interesting, as well. I was particularly interested in Temple's own childhood and how she thinks in pictures (hence the title) – some autistics do that, but not all. She included plenty of psychological and scientific information on autism, in addition to the anecdotes from her own life (and the lives of other autistics she knows or has heard from), as well as advice for parents of children with autism.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I give this book one star. I know most people will probably disagree strongly with me, but I found this to be a difficult and tedious read. While I admire Temple for her talent, ingenuity, courage and determination in pursuing her education and career goals, I find her writing to be all over the place, rambling, difficult to follow and limited- in that she makes sweeping generalizations about autistic people, based on her own personal experience of course. What she fails to realize is that not all autistic people are like her! Not all autistic people are visual learners, they all *don't* 'think in pictures'...This is of course, one of the ironies with autistics: their own theory of mind issues come in to play in their writing about autism. If you want to read a good book written by someone with autism/aspergers, read Born on A Blue Day, by Daniel Tammet, or Asperger Syndrome, the Universe and Everything, by a delightful boy named Kenneth Hall. There are many others too.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I was very interested in it at first, but as it went on, I actually got bored. It seemed repetitious. I think as the book went on my impression of it became colored by the fact that I find autistic people very, very hard to deal with. Temple Grandin reminded me strongly of someone I knew in school and had to partner with in a cooking class. While it was fascinating to see how she’s found a way of life that works for her, everything about her was annoying me and I couldn’t help thinking how irritating she’d be if I met her.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wow. We learn about Grandin, and autism, and cattle handling, and the cognitive abilities of other animals.... Fascinating and enlightening - especially recommended for parents and teachers.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The author relates her life and experiences adapting to "normal society" while having an autistic mind. It's a very revealing examination of how social interactions are integral to success in life. The author offers tips for raising a child on the autism spectrum as well as advice about everything from medicine to religious training. This isn't a riveting read. The author's style is dry and the different subjects seemed unconnected at times. However, from what I read in the book, this type of communication style is to be expected. I could see this being a very helpful book for parents or loved ones of an autistic individual.