Olivia's review
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin
Olivia's review
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin
Olivia's review
rating:
temple grandin designs cattle chutes. she wants cows to not be frightened as they are sent to their slaughter. and as an autistic person who interprets the world visually she discusses how this enables her to understand how animals interpret the world. aside from teaching me a lot about autism (who cannot be fascinated by a totally different mode of perception? and who couldn't stand some info on the obstacles autistic people face?), this book had such moving and beautifully poetics moments for me. for example, her sympathy for animals is amazing. at one point in the book she confuses the chute contraption she designs for her own body and believes she is holding the cow while directing it through the chute system. and her motivations for her passions were often beautiful to me. for example, her drive to study physics because she is searching for proof of god. i really loved this book.
