“…but not less”

Book review:

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

by Temple Grandin (b1947)

Foreword by Oliver Sacks

New York: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 1995, 2nd ed. 2006

270 pages

Thinking in Pictures is a calmly important book.

Probably you don’t know much about autism. Temple Grandin knows a lot, and she can teach you about the people who live lives that are different from yours. Really.

“Different, but not less.” That’s what her science teacher said about her.

She writes in a reserved tone, offering a grand sweep of what was known about autism in the mid 1990s and again in the mid 2000s. She talks about the high points and the low points of the rocky road of her life.

Temple Grandin talks with precocious understanding about animals. You’ll learn from this element as well.

I re-learned this very sobering truth: nearly everyone doesn’t experience the world the same way I do.

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The Reader (Der Vorleser)

Not just a rehash of WWII…

by Bernhard Schlink

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