Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
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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 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 perspectivies 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. Publishers Weekly A high-functioning autistic, Grandin presents linked articles on her life and her work as an animal scientist. (Nov.)
Foreword11Ch. 1Thinking in Pictures : Autism and Visual Thought19Ch. 2The Great Continuum : Diagnosing Autism43Ch. 3The Squeeze Machine : Sensory Problems in Autism62Ch. 4Learning Empathy : Emotion and Autism82Ch. 5The Ways of the World : Developing Autistic Talent96Ch. 6Believer in Biochemistry : Medications and New Treatments111Ch. 7Dating Data : Autism and Relationships131Ch. 8A Cow's Eye View : Connecting with Animals142Ch. 9Artists and Accountants : An Understanding of Animal Thought157Ch. 10Einstein's Second Cousin : The Link Between Autism and Genius174Ch. 11Stairway to Heaven : Religion and Belief189References and Selected Readings207Resource List221
