Very good. I love the squeeze machine. I love how she explains herself. Big relate

This book is called Emergence by Temple Grandin and Margaret M. Scariano. It is a true story. This book has 188 pages. Emergence is about a girl named Temple Grandin who is labeled autistic.

tTemple Grandin seemed like a normal child. Temple couldn’t even speak until she was 4. The way she acted her mother loved her so much, but didn’t know what to do. Her mother took her to the doctor and he labeled her autistic. Temple’s mother put Temple into a regular school. Personally, in this time period, I think Temple’s mother made the right choice. When Temple got older she argued that people with autism have a great deal to contribute to society. Temple has many panic attacks and social alienation. Temple later built a machine and then went into the cattle business!

tParticularly for me Emergence was an amazing read! I love this book because, I have a wonderful connection because of my brother. One aspect I love is the extracts from Grandin’s diary, and the letters to and from her mother. I was also humbled and grateful for the frankness with Grandin describes her more destructive childhood behaviors, such as smearing feces, peeing on the carpet and hitting other children. Temple’s use of direct language inspired me. Emergence is an amazing book with so many life lessons that absolutely anyone would cherish!

Difficult to read in parts, but interesting overall.

Temple Grandin is an amazing inspiration for all of us. I think few of us could achieve such success in the face of the kind of obstacles Temple--and others with Austism Spectrum Disorders--had to overcome. I also admire her candor in sharing her experiences; her courage to tell her story, even incidents that were embarrassing or difficult for her, will help more people to understand what it is to live with ASD. I plan to read more of her books. Hers is a fascinating life worth exploring.

This was a great book that gives you insight into the mind of a person with autism. I throughly enjoyed reading this book and definitely learned a lot about autism and how they see the world differently.

I am reading this book for a Developmental Variations grad school course and already I'm blown away. It is the autobiographical story of a functioning autistic woman (she would call herself "recovered autistic" but I still notice some qualities of autism seep out in her writing). Regardless of what you label her, she is a successful woman who overcame her disabilities characterised by intense nerve attacks and tantrums, hitting as the only form of communication with peers, and deplorable school grades, to graduate salutatorian of her class in college and move beyond.
She basically invents a machine to help her work through some of her autistic problems, and despite avid backlash from those around her, she develops her invention with the intention of helping others with it.
I still have about 100 pages to go on this but I am enthralled and I suggest it to anyone interested in autism.

Very helpful to better understand people with Autism. Different NOT less than!!!

There were two main reasons why I chose to read this book. First of all, it is a book about autistic. The chapter 1 of Northstar 4, our English textbook, had a passage about autistic and servants. The second reason why was that the author of this book was Temple Grandin. My English teacher introduced her while we were learning chapter 1. And also, part of her book, ‘Animals in translation’ was also in our textbook. After my teacher’s introduction of Temple Grandin, I watched her TED lecture, which was titled “The world needs all kinds of minds”, and thought it very interesting. Her point of view, as a ‘visual thinker’ was something that I had never thought before. I wanted to learn more about her and started to read this book. This book is mainly about ‘Temple Grandin’ herself. She had written her memories back from her childhood to her career.
These days, Temple Grandin is well known as the genius of designing livestock facilities. However, the interesting part was that she was not a “good child” as a young girl. It was true that her autism had big impact on it. She was diagnosed with autism at young age. She was aggressive as a young child, who had learned to speak very late and tried to solve problems with violent acts. She had tantrums.
The change occurred at her junior high school, Mountain Country School, when she met her teacher Mr. Calock. Before meeting him, Temple had special abilities on ‘visual’ subject like art and sewing, but had bad grades on other subjects. Mr. Carlock believes her ability which made Temple study, and choose her career after learning ‘animal science.’ Also, on her vacation with Aunt Ann, she develops ‘cattle chute’ for herself, which was used to be calm, and this shows how talented she was with understanding animal’s mind and tried hard to change herself as sociable person. Later, she become successful on her career as she understood animals and built livestock facilities suitable and fast for animals.
While reading this book, I felt three things from Temple’s life. First of all, everyone has their own talent. We need to find our own advantages and further develop it. Temple found her interest and talent of animal science, and became famous expert who created one-third of livestock facilities in U.S.
Second, power of education is very strong that it can change other’s life. For example, Temple was expelled from Cherry Hills Girls School because she hit other student who teased her. The mean girl teased Temple as Retard, and the teacher decided to expel Temple, not hearing her stories. On the other hand, in the Mountain Country School, a girl cut in line and Temple hit her. Miss Downey, listens to Temple’s story and understands her position before scolding her of using violence. Also, while all the other teachers though Temple as a weird girl who has bad grades, Mr. Calock find her special talent on mechanism. I strongly felt that education is very important by reading this book. So for next time I go to volunteer for mentoring, I decided to be more careful of my every use of language and attitude. Also, society and government should change the education model to the direction of respecting every student’s individuality and help them to find their dreams from it.
Finally, we can do a lot of things only if we tries to change ourselves. Temple had autism and it was hard for her to communicate and understand others. Also, she had temper tantrums. However, by trying hard to change herself, she could recover a lot. It reminds me the book ‘Outliers : The Story of Success (Malcolm Gladwell)’ and the 10,000 hour rule. I got hopes after reading it and decided to do my best to change my disadvantages of personality.

In trying to understand my boys better, I picked up this book. It blessed me to do what I set out to do with the added measure of understanding myself better. Now I'm absolutely sure that "Asperger's" is not only the label that fits my boys, but it is what I have been dealing for as long as I can remember (as well as dyslexic and dyspraxic which often accompany Austism-spectrum challenges). We can learn to work around our challenges--to learn from them--and become productive members of society. It will be a long road ahead with numerous stumbling blocks and set-backs, but Temple did it, and we don't have nearly as far to travel as she has. The boys and I also watched the movie, Temple Grandin. Both are eye-opening and inspirational! Temple Grandin has come to speak at USU before, now we can't wait to meet her when she comes again.

I have worked in education for almost 10 years and have spent a lot of my working with children with autism. Through the years, I have read a number of books about autism and working with children with autism, but this book was the most insightful (and inspirational yet). I love that she refers to herself as "recovered" and appreciated the first-hand insight she gave about what it's like to live with autism. This book is a must read for parents of children with autism as well as professionals who work with individuals with autism.

1* for enforcing the harmful “autism needs to be fixed”-narrative

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