aspergers. left or right brian

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which brain hemisphere is you dominate one? left or right? and how do you think... in pictures only or....???

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Logical thinking, right handedness --> must be the left for me

Would you elaborate on the second Q?

My left hemisphere is far stronger than my right. I can't produce "mental images"--visual, auditory, or otherwise. I guess I'd say that my thinking is "silent", or, as I often put it, purely "conceptual". My brain deals in concepts, not pictures or sounds (or smells or tastes).

I am a hyperlexic visual (auditory, etc) thinker.

I am mostly but not entirely left-handed.

I believe I answered your 2nd Q anyway...

Clearly: My thinking uses logical scructures mostly.

I have a balance between left and right. I'm right handed.
I've always had a weaker left eye but lately my entire right side seems to be getting weaker, including the eye.
I think in pictures and sounds.
I've always struggled with language and mathematics but I can read, write and do math now. The later just takes some time and is helped by medication.
It feels like I've lived two lives because I was always the artistic one but now I seem to be more logical. I still have my artistic skills but I do think quite a lot, far more than I used to. It's interesting to me that I could tap into the other side in just a few years and was helped considerably by medication. Medication just helped with how much I could learn in a day without getting as exhausted by the information as I used to.

My thoughts seem to be purely conceptual too, unless I'm deliberately putting them into words. I suspect that most people think like this, in spite of the common belief that we mostly think in words or pictures. Main evidence for that? Most of us have had thoughts that we can't easily put into words. That couldn't happen if we thought purely in words. The moment you have an idea that you can't immediately express, you can see the pure, conceptual thought. What do see, pictures, words, or just hazy concepts? With me it's just a hazy concept, which might have a very blurred, dark image or two associated with it, but it's definitely not what I'd call pictures. It's pure, language-free thought.

I think in words a lot, but only as a secondary process to the basic conceptual thinking. I don[t know if I'm left or right-brained. I've been accused (in conversation) of flipping to and fro between the 2 sides like lightning. I'm kind of naturally intellectual but I've had a keen interest in the artistic, emotive side of things since I was at school. Intellectual stimulation can be great fun, but the emotive side lets you take fun to another level.

I type it quickly during lunch before I forget...

'Conceptual thinking' and 'Logical thinking' are not far away from each other, as I "see" it. One difference: a logical structure per definitionem is always logical, conceptual thinking may (just may) be not relevant to logic. For example, if I experience social defect of mine, I will not seek social interactions. This is easy and logical. Despite this, I will seek, beacuse I feel the need, and that is a concept. The logic can be revealed, but only on a higher level of logical modelling. I need interactions, because my personality requires this kind of stuff to feel whole (and it does not stop here). This is a concept too, but a more compex and comprehensive one.

Not fully logical concepts are e.g. astrology, religion, "-ism"-s
Logical structures are: maths, physics

I took this quiz and found that I have the equal amount of dominance in each of the hemispheres in my brain.

The higher of these two numbers below indicates which side of your brain has dominance in your life. Realising your right brain/left brain tendancy will help you interact with and to understand others.

Left Brain Dominance: (16)
Right Brain Dominance:(16)

Link
http://www.intelliscript.net/test_area/ ... nnaire.cgi

I got 16/16 too

16/16 is the only result it gives.

Other tests and questionaires consistently tell me I am heavily left-brained.

Dammit, is it broken? The questions seemed quite relevent......quite a few of them were about things I've learned to do, so it felt like a measure of my lifelong coping strategies...the artistic side of my brain was something I felt in danger of losing, when I was more scientific, and even these days I have to give it a push now and then.

Yeah, I checked it too, and it's borked

Try this one http://www.web-us.com/brain/braindominance.htm

That makes more sense to me.

I simply can't "think in words" or "think in pictures". Can you? Can you produce a clear "mental image"? Picture a baby sitting on an alligator. Do you get a vivid, photo-quality picture in your mind? Or do you just think about the "concept"?

Most people can produce mental images, whether or not they represent their "standard" mode of thought.

That seems more like it.

It wouldn't give me a score - just said "please answer all questions before scoring" - but I had done. There's just 18 questions, right?