![]() One reviewer praised Thinking in Pictures this way: "It provides a way to understand the many kinds of sentience, human and animal, that adorn the earth. 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. Her special brand of thinking enables her to see how cattle think and then to create entire sets of blueprints in her head. Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. Grandin holds a Ph.D in Animal Science and she is a designer of humane slaughterhouses for cattle. Although her ability to think in pictures creates an impassable gulf between herself and others, it is an extraordinary fount of creativity. Overview Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism (1995) is a scientific memoir by author Temple Grandin. To use language she must first convert words into pictures. ![]() Grandin explains that language is too abstract a system for her. ![]() Grandin offers an interior view of this relationship, and what a rich interior this is. ![]() Oliver Sacks recognized Temple Grandin's uniqueness in an essay whose title "An Anthropologist on Mars" captures the strangeness of the relationship of a person with Asperger's syndrome (a form of autism) with others. ![]()
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