Non-Verbal Thinking Styles

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I recently read some stuff which suggests that having non-verbal thinking styles is one of the main reasons why autistic people have trouble with communication, and I have previously noticed in myself that that seems to be why I take as long as I do to process language.

Mu thinking process is very visual, it would be possible for me to make an animation quite accuritely depicting what it's like in my mind. From what I have read and heard from people I have talked to about this, most people can only visualize something fairly simple. On the other hand I can easily picture every moving part of a steam engine reacting to steam pressure and sort of simulate it working in a lot of detail without breaking a sweat. My memories are often in the form of images, as are concepts that I understand. Every word has an image or series of images that go with it in my memory which depict it's meaning. One thing I do have trouble visualizing is words, I can only handle having about 3 letters or numbers existing in my little visualized world at a time even though I can imagine my car (with the exeption of the lisence plates) down to where the scratches are and what junk is on the floor quite easily. That really confuses me.

Is a non-verbal thinking style like this the reason why the rest of you have trouble with communication?

I've always been a verbal thinker & I had lots of communication problems as a kid.

I could say the same. And I'm more or less making my visualizations real on various mediums.

What I noticed so far are:
-I'm better of recalling something what is written, not what is spoken.
-I'm much better of recalling what are things looked like, not what is written or spoken.
-I wish I could just draw or write than speak. But writing things may get things a bit complicated.


When it comes to visualizing letters? I end up treating it like an object or a pattern that I could rotate and play with than an actual letter...
I barely grasp how to think in words. At best, it's like looking at the screen or a letter full of words, and I can read it out loud in my mind like a photographic memory.

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I would love to be in your heads. Sounds so interesting to see things this way.

I am clueless as what type of thinker I am.

I can recall things I have read, but learn best when I am actually shown something and try hands on.

I follow basic rules A goes to B goes to C , but might not understand what is behind it ?

Am I making any sense ? I have just confused myself

Complete visual thinker here. AT least here, I can stall and process before I have to speak or wish to speak. In face to face, I don't have that luxury. And I crumble most times because most times, people go off script.

I completely agree with the OP's comments about being able to create a visual narrative that cannot get into words. It stops me cold many times and the frustration levels just skyrocket at that time because it's there and just will. Not. Get. OUT. No matter how hard I try, it's stuck.

I feel like one of those movies or TV shows where the spell is cast to prevent the words form coming out. And as I try harder and harder, I can feel the tension rise. Sometimes too much so.

I'm primarily a verbal thinker.

However, I do possess some kinesthetic-thinking features, which is similar to "muscle-memory."