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Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions Hardcover – 14 September 2023
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Temple Grandin is one of the world’s most accomplished and well known adults with autism. She has a PhD in animal science from the University of Illinois and is a professor at Colorado State University. She is the author of six books, including the national bestsellers Thinking in Pictures and Animals in Translation. Dr. Grandin is a past member of the board of directors of the Autism Society of America. She lectures to parents and teachers throughout the U.S. on her experiences with autism, and her work has been covered in the New York Times, People, National Public Radio, and 20/20. Most recently she was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of the year. The HBO movie based on her life, starring Claire Danes, received seven Emmy Awards.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great BookReviewed in the United States on 21 January 2025
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very interesting
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DZ
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing bookReviewed in Canada on 4 January 2025
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Well written. Science and common sense. Temple Grandson blends knowledge and experience to make a complex subject understandable
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Kyle
5.0 out of 5 stars GreatReviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 October 2024
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Great
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Sriram
2.0 out of 5 stars As an autistic, it’s just too clumsy to readReviewed in India on 12 June 2024
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The content appears to be good based on first 20 pages but being a visual person and an autistic, to me it was just too complicated to read. Almost every para has a name of some scientist who did so and so study which really takes away the attention from the flow of a discussion. If you’re prone to attention switching issues in the mind, this names of scientists alone with examples of experiments without a context would be a real hard read as it distracts from the essence of what we’re reading in the moment. I just couldn’t bear up reading beyond twenty pages. It’s all scattered information and you need to write summaries alongside and organise information yourself in a note. Boring, clumsy and disorganised but very useful information. Not recommended for an autistic audience.
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Natanael Matos
5.0 out of 5 stars a truly surprising bookReviewed in Spain on 11 February 2024
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A truly surprising book, along with updated knowledge about autism, a first-person experience, with immense reflection and excellently written.
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3.0 out of 5 stars To be enjoyed with caution
Reviewed in Germany on 31 July 2024
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I am autistic myself and think in pictures or short videos. So the book has helped me to understand myself a little better.
However, I would only recommend it with caution to neurotypical people who want to gain insight.
Temple Grandin herself is not without problems with her views. Not to mention her benevolent views on the organization Autism Speaks (which was founded to cure autism. Spoiler: There is nothing to cure. It is not an illness.).
Growing up extremely privileged herself, she received the very best support that her mother could buy for her. She is only too happy to forget that.
The attitude "if I can do it, others can too" is not helpful anyway, and especially not when it comes to other autistic people.
The old saying "if you know one autistic person, you know one autistic person" really applies here - and really only one.
You don't know what it's like with the others.
"Autism is a spectrum" does not mean that it goes like a bar chart from left (not much) to right (a lot).
It is like a pie chart and the individual pie slices are the different characteristics, which are expressed to varying degrees depending on the person.
I know that we autistic people like to see things as either/or/black or white. But the fact that Temple Grandin speaks so much in absolutes in her book is not OK for me.
Yes, people who think in pictures can be good at math.
Even if you are not yourself.
The tone of the book is quite didactic. Like someone who is in her late 70s, has already written many books on the subject of autism and thinks that she is undoubtedly right about everything.
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Sunny
5.0 out of 5 stars Temple's Compassion for Animals Includes Humans--A Brilliant Tale of How Everyone Could Contribute
Reviewed in the United States on 2 March 2025
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Once again, Temple Grandin combines her intellect, touching sensitivity, and personal experiences into a book that is sorely needed in this era of quick, inaccurate judgements and prejudices. I found it to be insightful but at the same time I was saddened by all the people who had so much that could have been contributed to human culture but have been left behind (including me). Hopefully, books like this, awareness, compassion, and tolerance for all will open doors for more people who don't fit the "norm" but have their own specialness to add to the soup of the human experience and development. The circumstance of time should not continue to be a limiting factor for anyone when it comes to making opportunities possible.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Contains no visual imagery at all.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 February 2024
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Ironically, a book written to promote the plight of visual learners with no images whatsoever. Perhaps the author was telling us something.. ?
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Kuhlin Wolf
3.0 out of 5 stars An annoying good book.
Reviewed in Spain on 27 February 2024
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It costs me to finish this book but I still can't put it aside, intriguing. The reading is easy but some parts are just difficult to digest.
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Warren Barry
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this book
Reviewed in Canada on 2 December 2023
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I truly recognize in myself as being a visual learner. I never knew it as such, and it now makes sense why algebra made no sense to me.
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Harry
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting ideas, difficult to read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 July 2023
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For a book that's written on visual thinking, there’s an extraordinary lack of pictures. I found the text informative but heavy going, and it was a difficult read. The text is small, which also makes it difficult to read.
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leserin
1.0 out of 5 stars nichtssagend
Reviewed in Germany on 18 November 2024
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statt das visuelle Denken an sich zu untersuchen geht es lediglich um Anekdoten , die nicht einmal zu einem theoretischen Überbau verknüpft werden. Was will uns die Autorin sagen? Es bleibt unklar...
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Dr. Amy Climer
5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written and profound
Reviewed in the United States on 3 September 2024
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I tend to be a visual thinker and this book helped me more deeply understand myself and others I've worked with. I think diversity of thought is so important in building strong products, strong companies, and strong communities. Temple Grandin lays out a great case for why and how to incorporate visual thinking and thought diversity in our work. I highly recommend this book!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Ordered new...got uses
Reviewed in Canada on 8 March 2024
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I ordered a new book. Very disappointed that it arrived with a ripped cover and in used condition!
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Peter Baum
4.0 out of 5 stars An important and interesting 4.8-star book that deserves to be widely read.
Reviewed in the United States on 12 November 2022
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This excellent book explains what it means to be a visual thinker, how our culture and schools are biased against visual thinkers, the detrimental effect of that bias on individuals, why our society needs visual thinkers, the benefits of visual and verbal thinkers working together, and the relevance of visual thinking to the issue of animal consciousness. As such, this is a very important book that deserves to be widely read.
I would have given this book 4.8 stars, had the rating system allowed it. My rating of 4 stars does not take away from how interesting and important this book is.
Comments that might lead to improvements:
1. The quality of the writing might have improved had the book been written as a full collaboration with a verbal thinker. Although the book is broadly well organized into 7 sections, readers who think sequentially will sometimes find the organization less than ideal. As an example, the author says that an animal recognizing itself in a mirror is viewed by many scientists as
“…the gold standard for the highest level of animal consciousness: self-awareness. If you have a dog, you’ve probably noticed that upon seeing its reflection, it will either bark or not react at all, and never get past this stage” (p.258).
Now, an experience in my own life contradicts this conclusion about consciousness. On one ordinary day, our dog Meg was chasing a rabbit up our long driveway. The rabbit circled back clockwise and ran right in front of Meg. But Meg was hot on the rabbit’s scent trail. Instead of following the rabbit, she took the same clockwise loop in her pursuit. (She did not catch the rabbit.)
Because of this observation, I don’t take the mirror test as saying much about dog consciousness. It is not until page 266 that the author writes
“The reason dogs do not engage with their image in the mirror is likely because their primary senses for socializing are smell and hearing, with vision a distant third.”
Placing all these sentences in one paragraph (on p.258, with the reference to scientists’ “gold standard”), along with other evidence of dog consciousness, would improve the reader’s experience.
2. Throughout the book, Dr. Grandin often repeats the same concepts and stories, such as the observations she made when visiting cattle chutes.
3. Each chapter opens with drawings of cattle handling facilities, presumably drawn by the author. As you may know, she has worked extensively for slaughter houses, and, if you love animals, you would want to know at the very beginning of the book how she reconciles this life choice while claiming to be an animal lover herself. She provides a reasonable, intelligent answer, but you won’t find it until page 272.
4. Temple Grandin is both a visual thinker and autistic. As a child and young adult, she was treated unkindly, unfairly, and sometimes abusively because of the ways she processed information. I am therefore somewhat sympathetic when I read what I see as incomplete, biased, or inaccurate descriptions of some of the individuals she uses as examples. For example, she referred to Thomas Edison as the inventor of over one thousand devices. Biographies and the description in Wikipedia say that
“Edison was legally credited with most of the inventions produced there [Menlo Park], though many employees carried out research and development under his direction. His staff was generally told to carry out his directions in conducting research, and he drove them hard to produce results.”
Dr. Grandin seems enamored of Elon Musk. She omits the fact that Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning actually founded Tesla, Incorporated. Musk is a successful businessman and showman, but he is not an inventor.
5. The book focuses primarily on two kinds of visual thinking and contrasts it to verbal thinking. However, a more complete description of other modes of thinking would have enriched the book and better engaged readers. For example, my step-mother had an extraordinary auditory memory. This ability enabled her to vividly and precisely recall the words she heard spoken. She said it was almost like a recording, along with a memory of where and when she heard those words. The same thing applied to song melodies and lyrics.
6. Another example that Grandin omits is people who “think” kinesthetically. Those are the people who become dancers, Olympic wrestlers, and gymnasts.
7. I have no doubt that computer programming is an area where Temple Grandin’s Spatial Visual thinkers excel (p.178). What she does not reveal is that even for relatively simple programming tasks, the algorithms that each computer programmer creates is usually a unique solution. Analysis of each algorithm is needed in order to discover precisely how each programmer’s mind is unique.
It’s likely that individuals think and experience the world in many ways, each of which is on a continuum. Many of these differences remain hidden. Dividing people simply into the book’s categories of verbal, object visual, and spatial visual, is overly simplistic. However, Temple Grandin’s Visual Thinking calls attention to some of the ways different people think. Hopefully, by doing so, more people will value these differences.
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Dorothy Anley
5.0 out of 5 stars it is a great gift for a relative who is autistic
Reviewed in Canada on 23 November 2022
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A great gift
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3.0 out of 5 stars And what?
Reviewed in Germany on 11 November 2023
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So we have a book about visual thinking without any visuals? Is it irony or am I missing something? And I don't understand the point of all these stories. Okay, some people think differently, and what do they have to do with it? No practical advice found.
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A. Van Meter
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellently written!
Reviewed in the United States on 5 November 2024
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Excellent book! I Finally read something that makes perfect sense regarding members of my family and household. If Dr. Grandin was the US Secretary of Education, we might have a better way of educating various thinkers.
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GoodGroove
3.0 out of 5 stars interesting, but repetitive and too wordy …
Reviewed in Germany on 18 May 2023
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… for a visual thinking book. Wished for more insights and hard facts instead of anecdotes. Prob am the wrong audience
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