Pictures in the Head: And Other Stories About My Life with Autism

Temple Grandin gained worldwide fame as the first person to publicly share the experience of living with autism spectrum disorder. Her book is a firsthand report from the "world of autism," and Grandin, who writes both from the perspective of an autistic person and from the position of a scientist, explains how this world is perceived by its inhabitants and how she herself managed to break out of its boundaries in order to function as fully as possible in the external world.

One of the mysteries of the autistic mind is the remarkable ability to develop visual-spatial skills despite clear difficulties in developing verbal skills. Grandin shows the differences between her life as a person with visual thinking and the lives of those who think in words. This is a window through which we can glimpse into a very different type of consciousness. Incredibly interesting and deeply touching, Temple Grandin's book serves as a bridge between our world and the world inhabited by people who think, feel, and perceive everything around them quite differently.

"Pictures in the Head" was first published in 1995. In this edition, Grandin added a postscript dedicated to the latest achievements in the study of autism, including new diagnostic criteria, as well as advice for parents of children with autism spectrum disorders.

Features:

- photographs from the author's personal archive
- a list of Russian-language informational resources for people with autism spectrum disorders and their relatives
- the M-CHAT-R autism screening test, which allows determining the risk of autism in a child aged 16–30 months

For those who care about the topic of autism.