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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism

by Temple Grandin

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ISBN13: 9780679772897
ISBN10: 0679772898
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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.

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In this unprecedented book, a gifted animal scientist who is also autistic, delivers a report on autism, written from her unique perspective. What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who bridges the gulf between her condition and our own, shedding light on the riddle of our common identity.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-220).

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Ruth, August 21, 2006 (view all comments by Ruth)
This is an amazing, enlightening, very compelling book. I learned so much about how the brain works and how different people process information in very different ways. Temple Grandin very clearly tells how an autistic person varies from a "typical" person with regard to thoughts, sequencing, emotion and interaction. I heard Ms. Grandin on NPR radio and was so engrossed I postponed my errands, sat in my car to finish listening and then- totally uncharacteristic for me- immediately found the nearest bookstore to buy the hardcover. (Sorry Powells, I do not live in Portland). Equally fascinating is Temple Grandin's Animals In Translation.
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ISBN:
9780679772897
Subtitle:
And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
Foreword:
Sacks, Oliver W.
Foreword:
Sacks, Oliver W.
Author:
Sacks, Oliver W.
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Animals
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Mental Illness
Subject:
Social Scientists & Psychologists
Subject:
Autobiography
Subject:
Autism
Subject:
Autism -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Copyright:
Edition Description:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Series Volume:
103-412
Publication Date:
October 1996
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
240
Dimensions:
8.02x5.19x.64 in. .56 lbs.

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