感覺是什麼？流淚是什麼？愛是什麼？包容是什麼？在封閉的世界裡，她的心僵化了，麻木，就像星星的孩子，被封鎖在另一個星球上，不為世人所解。在她身上，永遠透著一絲涼意，冰冷而無法接近，「執迷、衝動、冷酷、無情」，的確，她不懂得溫柔，無法付出愛，不能忍受擁抱。天寶‧葛蘭汀，一位迷失在自閉症國度，令醫界不可思議的女孩。陷入五里雲霧的生活迷障，在一般人無法理解的狀況下，取得畜牧科學博士學位，成為一名大學教授。她那超乎常人的專注力、特別的視覺記憶，在人群中顯得十分奇特，並與眾不同。在多風多雨的生命旅程，她用僅存的稀微感知，一次次撥開雲霧，貼近人心，學習愛與聆聽。
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one-third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism--because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible to the rest of us.
In this unprecedented book, Grandin delivers a report from the country of autism. Writing from the dual perspectivies of a scientist and an autistic person, she tells us how that country is experienced by its inhabitants and how she managed to breach its boundaries to function in the outside world. What emerges in Thinking in Pictures is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who, in gracefully and lucidly bridging the gulf between her condition and our own, sheds light on the riddle of our common identity.
本書中譯版《星星的孩子：自閉天才的圖像思考》由心靈工坊出版。
作者簡介
Temple Grandin has a Ph.D. in animal science from the University of Illinois and has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States, and many in other countries. She is currently an associate professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University and a frequent lecturer at autism meetings throughout the country. She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
