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what type of thinker are you
Visual Thinker 52%  52%  [ 26 ]
Pattern Thinker (music and math) 16%  16%  [ 8 ]
Verbal Thinker 32%  32%  [ 16 ]
Total votes : 50

ZombieBrideXD
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08 Jan 2014, 6:29 pm

according to Temple Grandin there are different type of autistic thinkers, what type are you?


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08 Jan 2014, 7:09 pm

I'm not sure. I seem to be an even mix between pattern and verbal.


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08 Jan 2014, 8:09 pm

I'd like to say I'm a pattern thinker but I think about music and not math.



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08 Jan 2014, 8:25 pm

"Pattern" is a bit misleading, since I am a visual + verbal thinker (I even visualize words as I am thinking them, as if reading from a script) but my mind is very pattern-oriented...the patterns are just visual ones, not numbers.



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08 Jan 2014, 9:13 pm

I still don't understand what pattern thinking is like.



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08 Jan 2014, 9:22 pm

Can we be a mix of all three?



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08 Jan 2014, 10:31 pm

Sure, but you might have one which is your preferred style.



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08 Jan 2014, 10:37 pm

I think of verbal as story / narrative style.

For example, if there's a movie which I believe in and which really touches my heart, I can remember the plot for five years or more.

And . . . if I had gone to medical school as a younger person, I might have struggled with things like if they had laid out types of gram-negative bacteria in a powerpoint type of presentation. But once they got to a case study of a particular patient, I would have been all over that stuff.

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PS Since WrongPlanet is by its very nature a verbal website, a survey here might be expected to overestimate the verbal style among the Asperger's-Autism Spectrum population as a whole.



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08 Jan 2014, 11:22 pm

I'm a very visual thinker. Everything has to be a photo-realistic picture in my head.



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08 Jan 2014, 11:57 pm

I can only learn new music on guitar by ear or by watching someone else play. I can't translate sheet music into a rhythm, it just seems like gibberish. What kind of thinking is this?


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09 Jan 2014, 1:02 am

Pastanoodle wrote:
I can only learn new music on guitar by ear or by watching someone else play. I can't translate sheet music into a rhythm, it just seems like gibberish. What kind of thinking is this?


i am the same way, i also learned language through rhythm and can recognize songs in just a fraction of a second. i play great piano by ear only, i cant read sheet music. but i am a visual thinker, with occasional verbal thinking if i have too. you may just have a good ear in music.

how are your math skills? how do you work out math problems in your head?


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09 Jan 2014, 1:15 am

Visual followed by pattern.
I have discalcula so not mathematical or musical pattern but visual patterns
which I guess rally makes the whole thing visual lol



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09 Jan 2014, 2:35 am

ZombieBrideXD wrote:
Pastanoodle wrote:
I can only learn new music on guitar by ear or by watching someone else play. I can't translate sheet music into a rhythm, it just seems like gibberish. What kind of thinking is this?


i am the same way, i also learned language through rhythm and can recognize songs in just a fraction of a second. i play great piano by ear only, i cant read sheet music. but i am a visual thinker, with occasional verbal thinking if i have too. you may just have a good ear in music.

how are your math skills? how do you work out math problems in your head?


I can't math worth a crap. I just get confused because I don't understand the relationship between the numbers and how to get the answer.


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09 Jan 2014, 2:36 am

Can anyone please explain to me what those terms means? I cannot seem to comprehend them. My way of thinking:

I have a poor visualization skills, I even scored very low on that part in a IQ test (5 block design and 7 indentifying similarities) so I cannot be a visual thinker. Verbal thinker then, maybe. I'd somehow have difficulties with my memorization skills which probably puts me out of that category, I'm good at mathematics but show significant problems when it comes to the mathematical problem solving for some reason, my psychologist told me that it's because I need concrete instructions in order to comprehend what that is being told. But mathematics is still my favourite subject because it's bloody intresting and motivating.

Pattern thinking is quite the opposite for me because I have a difficult time comprehending musical notes and how to play the instruments generally speaking even if a teacher repediatly tells me how to. But when it comes to mathematics in the pattern thinking section then that pretty much sums up my way of learning, I can only learn by patterns and incase there's a change in the pattern, it will be problematic for me and slow me down.

So which one of these do you think that I have? Or is it simply a mix between these? :?: :?:



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09 Jan 2014, 4:43 am

How can you tell? I think the way I think, I've never thought any different. I don't know how other people's perceptions or whatever you call it work.



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09 Jan 2014, 6:23 am

I am a full-blown pattern thinker.

My guess is this is actually one of the more rare autistic thinking types.

I love music, math and programming on a deep level. It is all patterns.

I understand the world through recognizing patterns. That's how I make sense of the world.