Thinking in Pictures

My Life with Autism

By: Temple Grandin

Narrated by: Deborah Marlowe

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©2006 Temple Grandin; (P)2009 Random House

Insight Gained

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Highly recommended if you want to gain insight to understand autism.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Temple herself is a beautiful individual who has helped me deeply in understanding my son!!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, I wanted to learn even more and gain more insight to Temple's amazing life.

Any additional comments?

I appreciate this author in sharing her experience with her gifts! I embrace my son everyday and try to reach him in the best way possible!!!

Great!

Informative and eye opening to statistics. Like that the ends of the chapters were updated with collections ro any out of date information.

Wonderful!

This book really helped me to understand how my son views the world! I would recommend it to anyone who has someone in their life with Autism.

Great book & well read

An interesting book that was written by an autistic person who miraculously earned a doctorate and now sports a long list of accomplishments in the cattle industry and is quite famous. The book talks in detail about what it’s like to be autistic as told by a person who considers herself bridging both worlds. ..strangely it is also about cows. There is a lot of credible information about both to be sure! I give it a four out of five simply because the last part of the book reveals some strange perceptions about God and religion but she wraps it up nicely after that.

excellent

a fascinating and brilliant woman; as another reviewer stated, should win a Nobel prize for changes she has designed and implemented to make the cattle industry more humane, as well as her work on autism, as an ambassador almost, helping people learn how the world needs all kinds of minds.