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“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
of The 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 in words." –The Philadelphia Inquirer
“A uniquely fascinating view not just of autism but of animal–and
human–thinking and feeling, [providing] insights that can only be
called wisdom.”
–Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don’t Understand
内容简介
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 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.