Why are we visual thinkers if language is our strength?

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At least thats the way I am and it seems like others here are too. Seems contradictory.

No way is language my strength.

same here. language is too hard

Maybe we're just wired differently?

I used to read a lot- Mainly text book type stuff... If I was going to read a periodical then it would be Scientific American, National Geographic etc... so I think I developed my language abilities through WHAT I read and my ability to retain that info. Then on top of all of that, I'd talk to anyone who would listen about the subject I had just learnt about. I had a fascination with Escher's works (still do actually)... What could be more visual? Yet, there are tonnes and tonnes of articles written about him and his works.

Anyway, it's late- and I'm trying to stop myself from rambling. So, I'll stop here.

I think visually at least part of the time. I know I for sure learn better by seeing things rather than hearing them.

Unlike most people who are aspie I'm an extreme audio learner. I hear numbers and see music. I'm also mean with an instrument.

I think visually most of the time. Language certainly isn't my strongest point, at least, not spoken language.

I'm verbal but I need to diagram things before I can say that I understand them. When I think about it, I realize I have to diagram it before I can talk to NT's about it. Maybe the diagram translates the idea into 'their' language. That's what it feels like, anyway. Once I've diagrammed an idea, I've reduced it to 2 measurable dimensions.

Based on what I have seen here, I don't think you can say ALL aspies are very visual. I'm not. I'm mostly audible and a sort of feeling that BORDERS on visual. Of course, if I REALLY get into it, I can almost walk into another reality, it is so visual.

Steve

We´ll have to ask a specialist. For some reason, i know three languages already (spanish, english and french, in that order) and although sometimes i think i shouldn´t learn another, i know that if it is so easy, so why not give it a try ?

We learn the langauge early, we just have more trouble applying it in situations..

Witten (visual) language is my strength. Spoken language is my weakness. If you think of it in those terms, it isn't contradictory in my case, as it is only when I can visualize the language (print or text), that I can adopt it meaningfully.

I agree with Scoots5012.

Language is definitely my strength -- I was a precocious speaker and reader. Visual-spatial skills are where I have a severe deficit. I am emphatically NOT a visual thinker. I find it difficult to form an image in my mind. I think aurally, I hear words in my head (subvocalization). My AS is much closer to the NLD side of things than it is to classic autism.

Same here!

in regards to language...

i often feel like a conduit. i can take in a lot of lingual info but can't spit it back out very well.

i am far better at reading/writing than hearing/speaking... i love patterns when comparing foreign langages and love the different clusterings of words that prepresent the same thought across the languages. i often feel this is why i am good at reading and to a lesser extent hearing foreign languages because i can see these clustal patterns (i reperesent them as kinda collages in my mind/so different pics can be composed of the same words, their composition is just different... denoting a different meaning (and reperesent a kind of emotion for me in a way, if that makes sense)...

yet when i am left to my own devices, to create sentences in my first language (but mostly foreign languages)... i have trouble figuring out how to group the words to convey what i want.

so when i hear/see languages.... it's easy for me to access these pics cause they tell me which "words" and thus which collages to look at.... then based off te emotion or sense i get from that selection of pictures... i can choose the appropriate picture (to talk about)/

but when i try to speak.... that process is in reverse and the problem becomes very hard. ex: i'll have an emotion/thought that i want to convey.... i don't have the words in front of me, but rather an array of pics that convey that certain feeling or sensation almost (of what i want to say).... and there are LOTS of words that kinda represent any one of those sensations but it all depends on the context of the situation as to which words are appropriate to say.

and so that's the hard part, is discerning the context.... and is why i have trouble making sentences wherever i go... eventhough i feel i know exactly what i want to convey.