![]() ![]() She thinks in vivid three-dimensional pictures, which seem to run on a tape that she can fast forward and rewind at will. She realized how not only her emotions, but her thought processes differ from those of other people. Yet she feels keenly the anguish of suffering animals and has had great success, of which she is understandably proud, in helping to alleviate it.Īs a scientist, Grandin has studied the growing data on brain development. Like Spock, she has not known the aesthetic joy of a beautiful sunset or of romantic love. Grandin explains how, like other autistic people, she identifies with “Star Trek’s” irrepressibly logical and unemotional Mr. Some, like Grandin, do have successful lives and meet in support groups with other adults who are autistic. ![]() ![]() As neurologist Oliver Sacks reminds us in the foreword, there is a shelf of literature about autistic children but little about autistic adults. This is the paradox at the core of her identity as an autistic scientist.Īn autistic scientist might seem like an oxymoron, but the miracle of this memoir is that Grandin illustrates that it is not. “I can put myself into a 1,200-pound steer’s body,” Temple Grandin explains in “Thinking in Pictures.” But while Grandin may be able to perceive the world from a cow’s perspective, she cannot empathize with people. ![]()
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