How does it feel? What are tears? what is love ? What is tolerance? In the closed world, her heart is rigid and numb, just like a child in a star, locked in another planet and not understood by the world. There is always a trace of coolness in her body, cold and inaccessible, persistent, impulsive, cold and heartless. Indeed, she doesn't know how to be gentle, can't give love, and can't stand hugs. Tianbao Grandin, a country lost in autism, makes the concentration and special visual memory of incredible women in the medical field look very strange and unique in the crowd. In the stormy journey of life, she used her last insight to clear the clouds again and again, close to people's hearts, and learned to love and listen.

Press: world culture

Title: EMERENCE: being labeled as autistic

Author: TEMPIE GRANDIN.

Cover painting and design: handsome man

Writing: Zeng, the third grade of the master's class in the Department of Psychology.

An autistic person who was regarded as a "freak" since childhood, when she was almost forty years old, wrote a book about her childhood experience-a book that stood out from the crowd: labeled as autism. The author was assessed as autistic, but she later obtained a doctorate and became an internationally renowned expert in animal husbandry processing equipment. This is very remarkable. Such people, once regarded as extremely hopeless people, strive for the upper reaches and accomplish the impossible tasks, and their life experiences are often poems that inspire the public.

However, for people majoring in psychology, it is a pity to read Children of the Stars as an inspirational book! Author temple grandin described many of his autism in detail, and also analyzed his psychological feelings when he perceived that his behavior was different from that of ordinary people. These are all complete materials that let us enter the inner world of autistic people. Autistic people describe their mental journey in the first person, which is the first book ever. In the past, the behavioral characteristics of autism were observed, guessed and explained. Most of them are defined as living in their own inner world, having obstacles in interpersonal communication, easily overreacting to certain stimuli, repeating certain behaviors or words, and easily generating harmful behaviors. But what about the psychological feelings of autistic people themselves? Usually not understood or respected.

If you think that autism is a disease that doesn't care about interpersonal relationships and only lives in your inner world, then Tianbao Grandin is correcting this misunderstanding. In fact, autistic people don't want to get close to the crowd, but they just can't; They can't develop social behavior smoothly. For example, I dare not look into other people's eyes, I can't shake hands, and I hate hugging, but this is not their essence. At least for Tianbao Grandin, she really wants to have a very close contact. The reason why she can't get in touch with people comes from her extreme sensitivity to stimuli. Temple grandin said: "The human world is too exciting for my senses." Subtle changes in schedule, unexpected situations, noise and close contact with the human body are all her burdens. Tianbao Grandin dreamed of having a machine to hug herself since she was a child, giving her moderate warmth and pressure. Until she grew up, she finally created a design that could meet her needs of being hugged, and controlled the size and size of the pressure herself, which also made her gradually tolerate physical contact between people.

In addition to interpersonal difficulties, autistic people are often considered stupid, eccentric and impulsive. They have obstacles in language expression, but they are not entirely intellectual. They know they have some ideas, but they just can't say them. Obsession is a common feature of autistic people. They will laugh and repeat some topics, which makes people feel weird, but Tianbao Grandin thinks that obsession can reduce her excitement and make herself feel calm. Because autistic people can't show general communication behavior, people will label them as negative observations, which will lead to the frustration of autistic people everywhere. Even ordinary people, setbacks can lead to interpersonal withdrawal, not to mention autistic people who are afraid of interpersonal contact.

It is possible that Tianbao Grandin, like most autistic people, needs the care of others all her life and cannot stand on her own feet, but her life story has surprised experts. She's standing in the crowd, in the spotlight! Why did she do it? Developmental psychology makes us understand that human development is influenced by the interaction between matter and environment. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that the development of Tianbao Glandien is different from other autistic patients. You can be said to be a gifted and self-reflective autistic person. Coupled with the tireless care, support and guidance of her mother and many key figures, she gradually approached or even surpassed the development route of "normal people"; Taking Tianbao Grandin as a case to interpret the course of life is inseparable from personal factors and environmental factors. I don't think this book is the inspiration of psychology students.

Temple grandin was influenced by autism, an obsessive-compulsive substance, and tried to create it constantly, eventually becoming an expert in animal handling equipment. Later, a medicine (Tofani) was developed to reduce the sensitivity of autistic patients to external stimuli. Using this drug, Tianbao Grandin is no longer driven by nerves, stubborn and fanatical, thus improving his ability to get along with others. Tianbao Grandin said: "... but if the doctor had prescribed these drugs for me in my early twenties, my grades might not be as good as they are now." Nervousness and obsession are the great driving force before I drag down my health ... "Yes, there is often a vague zone between good and bad, success and failure, hope and despair; Physicians and psychologists desperately want to solve problems for "abnormal" children, and drug therapy and psychotherapy try their best to restore him to health, whether mainstream or ordinary.

Indeed, Tianbao Grandin himself wants to be a "normal person". In the last chapter of her autobiography, she gave many suggestions on how to take care of autistic children, and considered herself a successful "breaking out of the cocoon". Paradoxically, if Tianbao Grandin was given medicine at an early age and developed like a normal person, he probably could not write such an autobiography. Children who are judged to be "abnormal" should respect their unsuitable materials or encourage them to compromise with reality? Children of the Stars contains intelligent answers. Interested readers please explore more!

Children of the Stars

Author: Translator labeled as autism: Ying

In the field of special education, I have always thought that autism is a rather mysterious world because it is an internal obstacle. Therefore, in the study of this subject, besides the physical aspect, psychological exploration may be unavoidable. But so far, it seems that no book has really been written by autistic people themselves. So I chose the book "The Child of the Stars-The Story of Tampi Grandin Walking Out of the Sky". Temple grandin was born with autism, but at that time, the United States still explored autism more than understood it (the word autism was first exhibited by Kennel in 1943). Therefore, when Tianbao was young, he stumbled in the field of study and didn't like too warm hugs. I am afraid of sudden voices and even rude children, but fortunately Tianbao has a firm and optimistic mother who has always helped him with tolerance and encouragement. From Tianbao's mother's diary, we can read a passage she wrote: "My lovely child, when she is good, she is very good;" But the bad times are really terrible, but she is still a smart and exciting child. It's fun to get along with Tianbao. She is a close companion. "

With such a cheerful mother, Tianbao has the opportunity to learn and progress. She entered Ri Zhang School in the Valley, where she met many masters, which gradually opened the door of her interpersonal communication and prompted Tianbao to find interest from confusion. Then Tianbao entered the university for further study. At that time, it was amazing that Tianbao was almost a recovered autistic. The unique "obsession" of autistic patients also makes Tianbao outstanding in animal husbandry science, design and equipment. Now Tianbao Grandin holds master's and doctor's degrees, and is an expert in the design and construction of livestock handling equipment. But what is precious is that she wrote the book "Children of the Stars", which gives us a glimpse of the inner world of autistic children and helps them from a new angle.

Some of the autistic children mentioned in the book are too sensitive, while others are incomplete. For example, they react greatly to sudden movements or sounds, but they can't look directly at each other when talking face to face. After medical observation, autistic children not only refer to the damage of the central nervous system of the brain, but also depend on the defects in many different parts of the brain. Therefore, helping autistic children requires flexible and diverse skills.

The book mentioned: "Don't pull them into people's world, but into their world." Autistic people generally have better visual contact than hearing, so when drawing and designing, like Tianbao, you must take the time to describe the drawings five times in your mind. We can't write down complicated mathematical formulas quickly, but we can still find from her endless creativity that Tianbao has a comprehensive vision instead of focusing on details.

There is also a very interesting part in the book, that is, Tianbao's feelings about "turning barrels" and "cow troughs". During the festival, an exciting toy, the rotating bucket, made Tianbao feel comfortable for the first time in her life, and also prompted her to find that moderate pressure can make autistic children feel relaxed, so she created her own "cow trough". I think this step is positive for Tianbao, or for other autistic people. When a person's mind or interpersonal relationship can't contact with the outside world, but he has a sound intellectual development, we can guide him to get in touch with what he is interested in, slowly pull him out of the lonely world, and let him learn the fun of finding and solving problems. This is also the best demonstration that Tianbao has given us.

There is still a part that puzzles me and makes me curious. When Tianbao makes up his mind to do everything well, he must find himself a real door and cross the past. It can be seen that this sentence is very important in an autistic world. An exact and real object can reassure them, which also gives us a good lesson: "castles in the air" is nothing, and building dreams is the truth. Tianbao once said in graduate school: "We are now full of self-doubt and sense of worthlessness, and the obsession of finding the meaning of life drives me relentlessly ..."

This passage impressed me deeply, because I often have similar feelings. I remember when I was a child, my mother always said that I was autistic (in fact, of course I didn't) because I would hide behind the washing machine and tear up toilet paper. At that time, I felt like Tianbao said, "Maybe one day, I will have a nervous breakdown in public ..."

It can be seen that in fact, many feelings of autistic people are just more direct and obvious than normal people. For example, Tianbao's father is also slightly violent, but he is classified as an abnormal family. But are we ordinary people really normal? I don't doubt what is "normal" and what is "abnormal", but maybe sometimes we have to think outside the standard and turn to the standard. In this case, maybe there will be fewer poor and unproductive disputes in the world, or some people who commit suicide because they are too depressed and stubborn!

"Children of the Stars" has no sensational inspirational plot, but tells a true story in a simple and down-to-earth style. Tianbao Grandin's optimistic and enterprising life lights up our gloomy view of autism. Maybe in the future, the window of the autistic world can be bigger. As long as we have the heart, perseverance and dedication to the method of breaking windows, then there will be more and more children who have the brilliance of stars like Tianbao.

(Information Release: Love of Ark)