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_BRI_
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 Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 2:45 am Post subject: Temple Gradin division of Visual and Math/Music AS? |
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| What do you think about that? She claims there are two types of AS intelligence. The Visual thinker and the Math/Music/Facts thinker. |
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IpsoRandomo
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:33 am Post subject: Re: Temple Gradin division of Visual and Math/Music AS? |
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| _BRI_ wrote: | | What do you think about that? She claims there are two types of AS intelligence. The Visual thinker and the Math/Music/Facts thinker. |
Funny, I'm more verbal. |
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Jainaday
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:47 am Post subject: |
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Maybe post more details about her dichotomy?
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LeKiwi
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:12 am Post subject: |
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I'm very visual but also very, very musical... but I can't do maths to save myself. Guess I'm a bit of both then, huh?
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shopaholic
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 4:18 am Post subject: |
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I'm mainly maths and verbal, and "visual" but not "spatial".
I don't understand why they always lump "visual/spatial" together, as for me they are completely separate things.
I am definitely a visual thinker: e.g. I can read a map no problem, in fact I have to see a map in order to understand directions)
but I have very little spatial awareness: e.g I find dressmaking completely incomprehensible in that they seem to "just know" how a 2-D pattern will look when made into a dress on a 3-D person, and how to put in darts, tucks etc. It's all a complete foreign concept to me! |
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LeKiwi
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| shopaholic wrote: | I'm mainly maths and verbal, and "visual" but not "spatial".
I don't understand why they always lump "visual/spatial" together, as for me they are completely separate things.
I am definitely a visual thinker: e.g. I can read a map no problem, in fact I have to see a map in order to understand directions)
but I have very little spatial awareness: e.g I find dressmaking completely incomprehensible in that they seem to "just know" how a 2-D pattern will look when made into a dress on a 3-D person, and how to put in darts, tucks etc. It's all a complete foreign concept to me! |
Exactly!!
My spatial awareness is awful. I'm the girl who constantly walks into furniture, doorframes (trying to get through), poles, puts glasses down on the edge of a table and wonders why it falls off, takes 10mins to cross a road because I've been nearly hit so many times.... 
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2ukenkerl
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 7:37 am Post subject: Re: Temple Gradin division of Visual and Math/Music AS? |
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| _BRI_ wrote: | | What do you think about that? She claims there are two types of AS intelligence. The Visual thinker and the Math/Music/Facts thinker. |
Although I am STILL trying to get my idea around whether I am truly visual, etc... I doubt my level there is really that savant like. My math/music suffered for several things. I AM good with facts though. Of course, that USED to be better.
BTW I DO do spatial better than visual. With ME, visual is like I am looking almost level to a table, and there are photographs on the table. I SEE the photos! I can deal with them in a coarse manner, but the detail and CLEARLY seeing them is harder. That means I could maybe go to california and even tell you the signs/turns, landmarks, but may fail to be able to recall what is ON the signs. I can tell you if a book changed in appearance, but not writing. |
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Sora
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I'm visual/spatial/musical and the opposite of maths that came into flesh haha.
It would be interesting to read more about the context this statement comes from.
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Pobodys_Nerfect
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| I would've thought that visual/spatial would be good for maths and music. They say the top mathematicians in the world are hopeless at arithmetic. |
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| Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 6:38 pm Post subject: Re: Temple Gradin division of Visual and Math/Music AS? |
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| _BRI_ wrote: | | What do you think about that? She claims there are two types of AS intelligence. The Visual thinker and the Math/Music/Facts thinker. |
Without seeing more background information, I can't say that there is a cast-iron distinction between the two. I have criteria of both - my mind is strongly visual and I can 'see' things in my head before I do them. But I also like facts, figures and statistics, so I seem to straddle both types of AS intelligence, without being brilliant at either.
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EvilKimEvil
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I'm good with music and language. I think in images and sounds with narration, like a TV documentary. I'm pretty good at drawing, and I'm good with maps, but I'm not very good at geometry.
I'm not good at math at all, even though I find it interesting conceptually. It's like I understand the concepts, but I'm clumsy with actual math problems. It's the same with chemistry and physics.
So I have no idea which category I'd belong to.
The dichotomy seems a bit arbitrary, based on the information provided. If more information were provided, it might make more sense. |
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