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Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89820092
EAN: 9780679772897
ISBN: 0679772898
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: October 29, 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October 29, 1996
Studio: Vintage
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Editorial Review:
Oliver Sacks calls Temple Grandin's first book--and the first picture of autism from the inside--"quite extraordinary, unprecedented and, in a way, unthinkable." Sacks told part of her story in his An Anthropologist on Mars, and in Thinking in Pictures Grandin returns to tell her life history with great depth, insight, and feeling. Grandin told Sacks, "I don't want my thoughts to die with me. I want to have done something ... I want to know that my life has meaning ... I'm talking about things at the very core of my existence." Grandin's clear exposition of what it is like to "think in pictures" is immensely mind-broadening and basically destroys a whole school of philosophy (the one that declares language necessary for thought). Grandin, who feels she can "see through a cow's eyes," is an influential designer of slaughterhouses and livestock restraint systems. She has great insight into human-animal relations. It would be mere justice if Thinking in Pictures transforms the study of religious feeling, too.
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - thank you!
thank you. temple. for the priviledge to commuicate. it was an honor reading ALL your books, especially when it's about animals. i'm in love with horses, cows , etc too!
Rating: - What an EXCEPTIONAL book!!
Although I have read a number of very interesting and informative (biographies and auto-biographies) books about autism before I picked up Ms. Grandin's book -- I never beheld the WHOLE picture regarding Autism, nor did I see the WHOLE scope of possibilities out there for autistic individuals -- until I read this particular book.
Temple Grandin - you are to be commended for your tenacity, confidence and will power, surviging and prospering and going forward, in the face of great odds. ... Read More
Rating:  - It doesn't live up to the hype
Yes, it is remarkable that an autistic person has written a book about autism and how autistic people see the world and process information.
But that's the only thing that makes it remarkable - if the book were written by a non-autistic person, it wouldn't have found a publisher, at least not without some serious editing. The subject is highly interesting, and the ideas in the book are really thought-provoking, and it's too bad that as a reader I found it hard to get really engaged in ... Read More
Rating: - A Must-Read for Oliver Sacks Fans
As you would expect from a book subtitled And Other Reports From My Life with Autism, Temple Grandin gives us a fascinating inside view of what it's like to be autistic. What you might not expect is how deftly she weaves neuroscience, animal behavior, humane practices in America's animal processing facilities, biochemistry, and even religion into this bestseller.
In contrast to the "experts" who tell us that there can be no true thinking or tool building without language, she's here to tell ... Read More
Rating: - Moving, inspiring, thought-provoking
Temple Grandin is an autistic who refused to take early retirement from life. With the help of her mother and some forward-thinking teachers, she drew upon her own inner resources, talents and strengths to move into the world of people who think in words and in two dimensions, rather than in 3-dimensional pictures.
I especially liked this book because it was highly informative. Ms. Grandin not only has a lot to say about autism, but goes into detail about an area that is obscure to most readers: ... Read More
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