what type of thinker are you?

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It would be interesting to have definitions or descriptions for these three categories, yes.

That being said, I am almost sure I am mostly visual. I vividly visualize scenes in books and texts, and my visual memory can be quite good. In fact I have trouble not visualizing anything I read or hear that depicts a real-world situation (or an unreal-word situation, it works as well for fiction universes). Pattern recognition, association, and abstract symbolic thinking (maths and other systems) also work well. Verbal skills... forget that.

It may interest some of you that Attwood writes that from his experience, many autistic people have a mostly visual thinking, except those with the (quite common) co-diagnosis of NLD (nonverbal learning disability) who usually stick to verbal thinking.

Given my propensity for making lists on just about everything and memorising much of what I write, then I must be a verbal thinker.

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Overwhelmingly verbal, followed by pattern-based. My patterns seems to be based more in symbols; good at seeing patterns in history and literature; not so good at seeing them in other areas.

Definitely a verbal thinker.

I'm a pattern thinker, though it is really hard to explain how it's like.

I'm a pattern thinker though in a musical way.

I am most certainly and to the utmost a pattern thinker, in both a musical and mathemetical way. I like dealing with numbers too, much more than words (word/story based math problems are trouble for me, I have to shuffle through nonsense to extract the good stuff... the numbers).

I love Progressive Rock/Metal plus their subgenres, and Progressive influence anywhere in Music because it combines Music with Mathematics. In addition, when dealing with music then words become extremely important to me.

I am not a good verbal thinker though, as for example I tend to forget verbal information unless I can actively apply a hands on approach. I have terrific memory recall when I can apply hands on, of information and events that occurred during that time. It's just as dominant as my pattern thinking but I don't think it's visual because I don't think in pictures and it's more based on what I do as opposed to see. Simple things included, like underlining notes, taking notes, writing stuff, twirling my pencil, typing on a computer, etc.

So I would call myself an outstanding Pattern Thinker (both Mathemetical, Musical), and Kinesthetic Thinker. I am a decent Visual Thinker, and bad Verbal Thinker.

I chose "visual" because it covers most:
I can visualize "read aloud" from a text, when I answer a question.
I can visualize my fingers on the piano or the score, when I hear music.
I "break down objects and rebuild them in another shape" when either on the phone or thinking through something.
I draw lines between points to deconstruct facades, and put things in order by shape, size or colour, while talking to someone.
When planning DIY- tasks, I se the parts coming together and taking shape, - and then I can measure.

Somewhere between visual- and pattern- thinker.

i'm clearly a verbal thinker! Words are like a type of 'math' for me. They make sense to me. I'm thinking in words and pages with words. Its also the way i remember things. My head is like a huge library. If there is something i'm not, its a visual thinker. I can't do anything with pictures, they do not make any sense at all to me. I can't even imagine how its like to think in pictures. How do you do that?? Makes no sense to me at all. If i'm watching a movie, i'm only reading the subtitels or listen to the dialogs. When i was testing on autism, the testresults found out that i'm highly gifted when it comes to 'verbal intelligence'. That's probably the reason why i talk so much The only 'visual effect' in the way i'm thinking is my synesthesia, which ensures that the words that i see in my head are very colorful