Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism [Paperback]

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 inThinking in Picturesis 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.CONTENTS

Foreword by Oliver Sacks

1. Thinking in Pictures: Autism and Visual Thought

2. The Great Continuum: Diagnosing Autism

3. The Squeeze Machine: Sensory Problems in Autism

4. Learning Empathy: Emotion and Autism

5. The Ways of the World: Developing Autistic Talent

6. Believer in Biochemistry: Medications and New Treatments

7. Dating Data: Autism and Relationships

8. A Cow's Eye View: Connecting with Animals

9. Artists and Accountants: An Understanding of Animal Thought

10. Einstein's Second Cousin: The Link Between Autism and Genius

11. Stairway to Heaven: Religion and Belief“I hardly know what to say about this remarkable book. . . It provides a way to understand the many kinds of sentience, human and animal, that adorn the earth.” –Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author ofThe Hidden Life of Dogs

"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 il£§