serenity wrote:
What I'm finding odd is that the poll on your thread is showing the opposite of most of these posts. I always assumed that most people on the spectrum thought in pictures, so I figured they'd read in them, too.
When I read, I translate the words into pictures, and if I recall what I read, I do not remember the
words but what I
visualized when I read them. I always thought this was somewhat odd/interesting, but I never realized anyone might think differently before the past year.
This creates some dissonance when a book I've read and strongly visualized is translated to film.
But while I'm reading I do not subvocalize and I hear the words.
That sounds right for me, too.
I can imagine voices, when I want to, but I don't just hear words in an imagined voice as I read. I have exactly the same "but they got that wrong!" feeling when I see someone else's visualization of something I read. Reading is almost like dreaming-images and ideas flow through my mind and the imagined things have a quality very like memories.