Guessing at nonverbal questions? Anyone else?

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Who here is basically clueless when it comes to most of the nonverbal type questions? Unless it's a simple question, ie triangles with one,two, and three dots so the answer to fill the gap must be the triangle with 4 dots, I am very much taking stabs in the dark. How well I do very much depends on how well I've guessed. Invariably I take a quick go at an answer because whether I took 15 seconds or 5 minutes for the most part I'd still be struggling to get it.

Its hard to decipher what the heck you are talking about.

I assume that you are talking about interacting with folks in social situations.

Do you mean: "guessing at what the 'nonverbal' question IS that the person is nonverbally asking?

Or do you mean after you discern what the nonverbal question is, you have trouble figuring out what the answer to the question is?

Those are two different things.

And what is a "nonverbal question" anyway?

I kinda think that you mean anticipating how folks will react to what you're saying, and then providing disclaimers to prevent misunderstanding. Like a person who announces that they love Trump, but then anticipates that that will cause folks to assume that they are Republican. So they then say "but I am not a fan of Republicans in general". Or like that.

Anyway.... can you give examples?

I was talking about nonverbal IQ questions.

That would be nonverbal reasoning tests. My psychologist said I did really well on them but I am a visual person. I tend to think in pictures. Not exclusively, but often.

Like I said...it woulda helped if you had explained more specifically WTF you were talking about!


You mean like "which pattern comes next?" And they show a series of pics of geometric shapes, and then a multiple choice of which pattern is supposed to come next in the progression. Usually incomprehensible!

Will hafta go back into my aspergers assessment papers, but I think that I do tend to be weak in those. But strong in verbal.

Which is strange (now that I think about it). Because in some ways I am a very visual thinker.