愛寵篇(十二): 一本好書 - Animals in Translation

終於有人可以認同我看見的野了!!!!! 好野!



書名: Animals in Translation
作者: Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson
Publisher: Harcourt

話說去自然療法專家Arden的公司途中，我被Dymocks給引左入去，買了homeopathy for dogs 同呢本Animals in Translation。 ok，homeopathy for dogs唔岩我看，因為我咩都唔識而那本書是給已經知道homeopathy的人看的，不過用來旁住身先，讀完個bach flower先看。

這本書的主要作者是Temple Grandin，她是一位天生自閉症者，但是當現在的人當自閉症是一個病，成日拋下可憐的眼光去看他們時。Temple用佢身為自閉症者的看事物角度應用在animal behavior上，你會發現她說的事是十分之仔細但係佢唔能夠用語言好好表達，因為她看見的都是picture。可是，訓練了40年後，佢1999年開始仲幫mcdonald的食物供應animal farm做督導員，無佢點頭個d animal farm真係無生意架。

佢更changelle了很多animal behaviorist的書(暫時唔寫出來，你地自己看)，是錯的。佢有很多sample更有一位是很有名的權威更在自己中風後改變自己以前寫animal behavior的事情，好勁的說。

Quote from book - Chapter 1: My story - What people see and don't see:

"It took me fifteen eyars to figure out that other people actually couldn't see what the problem was, at least not without a lof of training and practise. They couldn't see it because they wereen't visually oriented the way animals and autistic people are.

I always find it kind of funny that normal people are always saying autistic children "live in their own little world". When you work with animals for a while you start to realize you can say the same thing about normal people (我絕對有同感). There's a great big, beautiful world out there that a lot of normal folks are just barely taking in. its like dogs hearing a whole register of sound we can't. Autistic people and animals are seeing a whole register of the visual world nromal people can't or don't.

I don't just mean this metaphorically either. Nomral people literally don't see a lot of things. There's a famous experiment by a psychologist named Daniel Simonds, Head of the Visual cognition lab at the University of illinois, called Gorillas in our Midst, that shows you how bad people's visual awareness is. In the experiemnt they show people a videotape of a basketball game and ask them to count how many passes one team makes. Then, a little while into the tape, while everyone is sitting there counting passes, a woman wearing a gorilla suit walks onto the screen, stops, turnsm faces the camera and beats her fists on her chest.

50% of all people who watch this video DON't SEE THE GORILLA!!!!!!!

Even when experiementers ask them directly "did you notice the gorilla?" they say, "the what??" Its not that they don't remember the lady in the gorilla suit. Anyone who forgotten something he saw will remember it when you give him a promopt. These folks actually didn't see the lady gorilla in the first place. She didn't register.

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The scaries study, though was the one done by NASA on commerical airplane pilots. The researchers put them in a flight simulator and asked them to do a bunch of routine landings. But on some of the landing approaches the experimenters added the image of a large commercial airplane parked on the runway, something a pilot would never see in rael life (at least, lez hope not). 1/4 of the pilot LANDED right ON TOP OF THE AIRPLANE, THEY never saw it."

作者說的 "Inattentional blindness"，是很多正常人都有而動物和自閉症是沒有的，都唔知d正常人可憐人地d咩了 :p

我想推介是因為，有好多野，我地太人性化去想動物，動物其實唔係0甘樣想的。你們看了係一個很好的inspiration，而且，我相信Temple會令很多人改變對自閉症人的看法。佢地都好detail oriented，而且因為可以抽離自己的角色去完全代入另一個世界，佢地看到正常人成日都看不到的細節(沒有任何we wang wang的，很實在的facts)。

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