A teacher working with a child with autism may not understand the connection when the child suddenly switches from talking about butterflies to talking about chicken. The memories that come up first tend to be either early childhood or something that happened within the last week. Then my mind gets off the subject and I see a butterfly cut of chicken that was served at a fancy restaurant approximately 3 days ago. The next image is metal decorative butterflies that people decorate the outside of their houses with and the third image is some butterflies I painted on a piece of plywood when I was in graduate school. If you say the word ‘butterfly’, the first picture I see is butterflies in my childhood backyard. My mind is associative and does not think in a linear manner. I was surprised to discover that the other non-autistic equipment designers could not do full motion test runs of equipment in their minds. I did not know that this was a special skill until I started interviewing other people about how they think.
When I design livestock facilities, I can test run the equipment in my imagination similar to a virtual reality computer program. All my thoughts are in photo-realistic pictures, which flash up on the ‘computer monitor’ in my imagination. Ultimately, it is Temple’s unique ability describe the way her visual mind works and how she first made the connection between her impairment and animal temperament that is the basis of extraordinary gift and phenomenal success.My mind works similar to an Internet search engine, set to locate photos. She describes her pain isolation growing up “different” and her discovery visual symbols to interpret the “ways of the natives” “Thinking in Pictures also gives information from the frontlines of autism, including treatme medication, and diagnosis, as well as Temple’s insight into genius, savants, sensory phenomena, etc.
Throughout her life, she has developed unique coping strategies, including her famous “squeeze machine,” modeled after seeing the calming effect squeeze chutes on cattle. Temple is among the few people who have broken through many the neurological impairments associated with autism. Here, in Temple Grandin’s own words, is the story what it is like to live with autism. Her unique empathy for animals has her to create systems which are humane and cruel free, setting the highest standards for the industry the treatment and handling of animals. Temple Grandin is renowned throughout the world as a designer of livestock holding equipment. The captivating subject of Oliver Sack’s “Anthropologist on Mars, here is Temple Grandin’s personal account of living with autism extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world and ours.
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