*The New York Times’s book critics select the most outstanding memoirs published since 1969. autistic animal scientist Temple Grandin first came into the public eye with this. What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who gracefully bridges the gulf between her condition and our own while shedding light on our common identity. Find items like Thinking In Pictures: My Life With Autism (Expanded. She tells us how she managed to breach the boundaries of autism to function in the outside world. In this unprecedented book, Grandin writes from the dual perspectives of a scientist and an autistic person. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us. Our first selection is by Temple Grandin, Ph.D., a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. We said "OK!" to each other and now we can't wait to imagine lives different from our own in some ways, but looking for connection and common ground at every turn.
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