Are you a more visual or verbal thinker?

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I think verbally, but I have a very strong visual imagination that goes along with it most of the time.

I'm a completely visual thinker. I honestly can't understand how people would think any other way. Until I started researching AS, I had no idea people had any other method of thinking than the way I do.

I think I'm both.

No option for both?

I can't pick one. I use them both for different things.

Both. Visual when thinking logically, I think this is the way I think most. I also think verbally without intending to, I see loads of links between words.

I always find it hard to connect verbalized information with the concepts my mind uses to think and store data in. I have difficulties with understanding phrases, "lingo", recognizing their context. In fact, one of the reasons I found studying at the uni difficult. Memorizing poems and legal texts, laws is like hell to me. Also, bringing back verbal information form my long-term memory is always a challenge. However, I don't think in pictures much either.

Depending on things like my mood, level of tiredness and what I'm thinking about my thoughts are either pictures, moving scenes like short film clips, sounds, words I can see faintly as if they're written in the air, or just random colours swirling around. So I guess my thoughts are mostly visual but I can quite often "hear" them too.

I've ALWAYS thought in images. I have to translate what I hear in words, into images, but rather than that being an intelectual process, it's automatic and always has been. It's really an intuitive process for me, which is weird because translating what I "see," whether that be what I see with my eyes or in my mind, into words, is definitely NOT intuitive, but is rather an extremely intelectual and time consuming process.

My wife on the other hand, who is now convinced she is also Aspie, is entirely verbal, and never thinks in imagery. The difference in processing causes great problems in communicating with each other. I have to ask her very specific questions so that I can form accurate images in my head of what she is saying, that make sense to me, while she tends to need to do something I would call verbal dumping. How I need to receive her information isn't how she "needs" to deliver it, and vice-versa.

We've been married now for sixteen years, and for the vast majority of those years, those differences caused a lot of problems. We would always have to stop each other and insist on the other changing how the information we want to share is conveyed, which caused us both to lose track of what was already said, and what was left to be said. As you can imagine, that caused a lot of frustration and frequent arguments.

Now that we both know our communication needs aren't the same, and how each of them works, that understanding helps us keep from getting so frustrated with each other.

I most definitely a verbal thinker. My daydreams usually sound like an audiobook and I am unable to visualize thinks like coordinate systems.

I totally think in pictures and i can't explain them to people. very visual so.

I think visualy and verbally, but I do my best thinking visually. If I am anxious or upset and my thoughts are really scrambled, if I can get myself to calm down enough to think visually deliberatly it helps me pull it back together. It tends to make me block out everything else around me, though.

I am mostly a visual thinker. I can think visually without words, but I cannot think verbally without pictures. I sometimes have internal dialogue, but it is mostly repeating something I heard earlier or planning a conversation. Everything else is basically visual.

I'm more visual but also pretty verbal.
NOT auditory however. Unless music counts. I can memorize and reproduce melodies fairly easily.
Algebra just makes sense, the way it puts itself together.

Almost purely verbal/concepts. I have virtually no visualization ability.