She was the subject of the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning semi-biographical film Temple Grandin. In the 2010 Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, she was named in the "Heroes" category. She invented the "hug box" device to calm those on the autism spectrum. She is one of the first individuals on the autism spectrum to publicly share insights from her personal experience of autism. In this book Temple Grandin gives a very clear impression of what it like to think and experience the World and other people with her kind of intensely visual thinking style, and she also offers insights into other kinds of autistic thinking styles, and by contrast into neurotypical thinking and - because it is her area of professional. Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American professor of animal science at Colorado State University, consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior, and autism spokesperson. A gifted and successful animal scientist, the author, who is autistic, tells us what it was like to grow up. 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. Description for Thinking in Pictures Paperback. 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. In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism.
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