Visual thinking.

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Is anyone good at both visual AND verbal/auditory thinking?

Can you learn both ways, or you do you think almost *solely* in one way?

I think NVLD fits better with verbal/auditory thinking, but now I wonder. NVLDers are described as having weak visual skills, ASFAIK.

I think primarily visually, I think, but I also do well with auditory, tactile, taste, and smell, so "visual" may be a misnomer.

I have a lot of trouble thinking in words. I can do it for a single sentence and then I just keep repeating that sentence. I am not sure what causes this. I don't think I can learn to think primarily in words, and I am pretty sure I don't want to learn.

The translation process does get awkward at times when I can imagine or remember things I don't have words for, but I can live with that. Or that I can go my entire life without words for something, hear or read words for it, and suddenly have thousands of words to say about it right then. It's interesting.

My auditory thinking style is in sound only. I can't think in words. My visual thinking style always takes over.
But my thinking in sound helps me be familiar with an environment and people too. Once I hear you speak I'll always remember it. Sometimes I pick up whole accents accidently and it becomes my own.

I'm a very visual learner/thinker. when I'm trying to solve a problem or a puzzle I can often times "see" the pieces floating in front of me. Or when building, deconstructing, or fixing something, I can "see" all the parts and how the fit together, I can even sometimes take things apart and put them back together, a useful skill when working on something.

My thinking is extremely visual. I have a sort of photographic memory. I can pan back though events in my mind, and if I need to remember something I just write it down, no need to bring it with me, and afterwards it's easy to 'flick back' and visualise the page I wrote it on, where I can 'read' the words. I remember the layouts of places very easily, so I never get lost!

As for learning, I know I'm not really paying attention to a book if it's not playing back in full cinematic glory in my mind.

I'm neither.

Be aware that verbal isn't always auditory. It can be visual (printed word, watching sign language), tactile (braille, raised letters, or sign language as felt on another person's hands), or kinesthetic (typing, doing sign language) too.

if I think verbally it's as if I'm typing. I don't know how to explain it otherwise. At one time I would move my hands/fingers in front of me as if I were typing when I talked but I was laughed at. I don't think visually. I don't think that either one is my primary mode of thinking. I'm AS but perhaps I'm NVLD; I still can't understand the difference.

I can do this. Loved this in school, never really had to study for tests.

I can also picture signs sometimes, and maybe remember phone numbers or other info on them.

I can also learn computer code quickly, because I can kind of *see* it in my my mind, BUT, that's where it ends.

I'm not visual otherwise. VERY auditory. I can't picture pieces of puzzles at all and don't really understand how things fit together. My spatial skills are mostly non-existent.

I will *never* forget something that I hear, and my mind is always filled with dialogue from TV and commercials.

This is kind of neat I guess, but not useful. I'm still trying to decide what I want to go back to school for. I'm good with computers, I can learn math fairly easily, and I feel like I could make a good computer programmer, but I worry about the spatial reasoning.

Aren't most programmers excellent visual thinkers, like engineers? ALSO confused, because I know that MANY people on the spectrum are in programming, but that people with autism are known to have good visual thinking skills but poor spatial awareness at the same
time.

ASD or not, this is probably me, but I don't really get it. I think fit the NVLD profile almost perfectly, but wonder how much that limits my options. I seem to have an easier time learning some things as an adult than I did in school, though.

Just want to be realistic :/

I'm having trouble following this topic. I just can't see what the fuss is about.

Extremely visual thinker. Visual/tactile learner. In classes or, later, in meetings at work, I need to be doodling in order to process the words. Note taking does nothing for my retention - doodling while listening lets me access every word I heard. Of course, in class and work environments, this is considered inattentiveness and rude.

lol I know, I started rambling.

I just wonder if most people on the spectrum are mostly skilled in one area, or not.

I feel like I'm stuck somewhere in the middle and it's confusing.

It was a lame attempt at humor. I can't SEE what all the fuss about VISUAL processing is about.

Sorry.

I'll crawl back under my rock.

BRO...I gotta give you, like, the biggest lol for that ever.


LMFAOAOAOAOATURTLE.

Primarily visual. I translate everything I hear or read or think into something visual. Once in awhile I have pretend verbal conversations in my head, though there is usually still some visual element to the thoughts behind the words. To really understand something I have to see it visually in my head. Also, ever since I was a baby I've had elaborate daydreams that were entirely visual.

Same for me.