Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: 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 perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is veteran 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 kindly and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.
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It might come as a shock but Dr. Grandin doesn’t have (and, in fact, never had) autism. She might suffer from mild oddities and peculiarities, anxiety, and even repetitive and forward obsessive thoughts. That is not enough, though, to qualify her for the diagnosis of Autism. At the core of Autistic disorder is lack of “theory of mind”, in additional words, inability to renovate insight into own thinking, comprehend others’ thinking, and be able to compare the two. One either wouldn’t have the disorder to be able to write a book about inner workings of autistic psyche for non autistics OR have it and never admit own deficiencies explicitly defined by the diagnosis. It can’t be both, and I suspect the ex- is right. Sorry, Dr. Grandin.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
She overcame her autism. How inspiring and hope for others with autism. Tells what it is like to live with this devastating illness.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book provides fascinating, intelligent, entertaining insights into the autistic mind.
Grandin is really very conceptual, as the ability to use language requires, but appropriate concepts and contexts are hard for her to define, seemingly due to a sensory system that leads to focusing on details rather than a broader scope. She and psychologists in all-purpose simply reflect she is largely non-conceptual due to their inadequate understanding of concepts, language, etc.
Really, we all reflect in pictures; but, most of us use generalized, essentialized pictures most of the time for efficiency.
A grasp of how concepts are formed and organized, and how they are the essence of language, will help momentously. Best and simple to read for effective all-purpose psychology is “The Psychology of Self-Esteem,” by Branden. Self-esteem is bought from experience, not by choosing it. Emotions result from thoughts, not vice versa. The best and simple to read for the scenery of concepts and language is “Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology,” by Rand, and then for a comparison with additional theories and how they go incorrect “Evidence of the Senses,” by Kelly.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This book really gives a fantastic insight to how people with autism reflect and feel!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
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