Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin
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Author: Temple GrandinEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-01-10
ISBN: 0307275655
Number of pages: 270
Publisher: Vintage
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- ISBN13: 9780307275653
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Book Reviews of Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
Book Review: Very useful for parents of children with autism, but. . .
Summary: 3 Stars
Many useful insights about children with autism, recommendations and suggestions of programs here, but I think the book oversteps. It seemed rather audacious to specify fields appropriate for people with various thinking patterns and skills. That is a highly complex subject that didn't seem appropriate for a work such as this--basically a description of the author's own unusual experience.
I attributed the flat writing style to the author's condition and looked past that, but had trouble getting past all the bragging about successes, accomplishments and abilities. Overcoming various difficulties is certainly something to be proud of, and maybe it was just presentation style, but I tired of the repetitive discussions of superiority over colleagues and others in the field of animal management.
The author's experience may not be as unique as she'd like to think. Her situation may be complicated by her more limited ability to communicate what she sees, however, and I can understand that. In my experience, many, many people 'think in pictures', myself included, and yes, it's often hard to describe the pictured solution to a problem verbally to others whether you are autistic or not. The best take-away here is the realization that the human brain has vast circuitry that allows for all different sorts of thinking patterns. Recognizing that others don't necessarily 'see' what we see, opens a huge door to learn from them and share our own insights in a way that gets our vision across. Quite possibly, for those with autism, this is a one-way street, which makes it extra important for others to provide more sensitivity and flexibility in the communication department.
I found the second half of the book more readable and useful--the part suggesting books, programs and teaching methods that had proven successful with children diagnosed with various levels of autism. I felt I understood autism better for having read the book, but do worry that the spectrum has become so broad that too many children are being labeled thus, when in fact they are simply less social and more creative than the average person. Isn't it dangerous to assume everyone who is somewhat different from the norm has some condition?
Summary of Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
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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