Poll on thinking! (more complete, I hope!)

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I clicked words and movies but it is more involved than that

I will have these visual images and the words of my thoughts seem to narriate them as it goes along
however sometimes the pictures are fragmented and the words are visual (like actaully seeing the words in my mind in the new times roman font)
other times it is pure visual or pure verbal.
I call it the tide. I guess it would be best called autistic inertia but my level of functiong comes and goes like a tide. During high tide, I think in words and pictures together very clearly and very quickly, but during low tide there are fragments of visuals and bits of words or just random images with no words. I can go from more high functiong aspie-like to moderately fuctiong autistic in a matter of a few days.

I never really understand these types of questions, for I am usually not one to be able to communicate how I think. I can communicate many of my thoughts, however.

I have real difficulty with this one, but think I'll go back and choose visually/verbally (think in movies or words). I was on a training course at work and there was a little test at the start, just for fun. The trainer read out a passage (whilst I hyper-focused), then asked a dozen questions about it. I can't remember it properly, but a sentence would have been something like 'The ground was wet'. One of the questions might have been 'Had it been raining?' Most people answered 'yes' to that and my answer was 'don't know'. I was the only one to get every answer right, most of them being 'don't know's, whereas most people got nearly every answer wrong. The trainer said that I must be a very verbal thinker. However, my dispute with this is that the reason I got everything right is because I had a movie playing in my head. And, when she said 'The ground was wet', I didn't make an assumption that it must have been raining, there were many reasons why this could have been the case. So my movie had blanks or unanswered questions, like a mystery.

I'm not sure if this is related but I wonder if others do this when they read. When I read, I hear each and every word in my head. It's like reading out loud, without making the sounds outside. Someone told me that when they read they don't hear the words, they just know what they mean by looking and understanding and this is the way most people read. I have to hear the word to understand (even if it's just the voice in my head).

2, 6, and 7, plus in concepts. I suppose, concepts are less abstract categories than abstractions. They are more of practical use.

I also find it a bit difficult to determine. I use these above the most, but I use others too. I can think in words, but it's hard to me when somebody understands something different under a word or an expression. They have to explain it first, so I can make up a conception.

Visually/movie like, with conceptual 'flashes', where the flashes are like complete bundles of related information popping up fully-formed and ready to go.
This happens most often when I'm busy with writing software, but also with humorous situations where one amusing thing might trigger a whole avalanche of related funniness. I used to get accused of capping people's jokes a lot, before realising they tend to dislike this. Who knew?
Very rarely are words involved - in all forms of thinking generally, I just seem to shift between or flip though various moving, sensory-loaded picture books.

I move felt objects around in my mind, so I chose abstract, which I'd call kinesthetic. I also hear sounds and words and talk to myself a lot in my head (blurting it out if flustered). I have tried to train myself to think visually, by trying to hold a clear image in my imagination, and have had some success.

I think in movies and words.

I said abstract, but it leans towards pictures. But it's not all pictures. Whatever it is, it isn't words. The only time I think in words is when I'm imagining having conversations with people. I see that as my planning how to talk about certain things, because I'll repeat parts of those imaginary conversations if the topic ever comes up with people.