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matsuiny2004
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 Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:22 am Post subject: do you have great visual abilitiy(for people with aspergers) |
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do you have good visual abilities where you can create a picture in your head? I have an NLD and I am ask ing out of curiosity since I do not have great visual abilites and this seems to recur among other people who have NLD.
The scale being from I can not create a picture in my head to I can create a 3D world in my head. I hope that was more descriptive.
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Mw99
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:28 am Post subject: Re: for people with aspergers |
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| matsuiny2004 wrote: | | do you have good visual abilities where you can create a picture in your head? I have an NLD and I am ask ing out of curiosity since I do not have great visual abilites and this seems to recur among other people who have NLD. |
Your question is hard to answer. I mean, where do we draw the line between great visual ability and not great visual ability? If my visual ability is merely good according to my own standards, should I answer no? |
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MartyMoose
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:28 am Post subject: |
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| What is NLD, and I was told my Spatial Reasoning abilities are at a level considered to be genius. |
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matsuiny2004
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| MartyMoose wrote: | | What is NLD, and I was told my Spatial Reasoning abilities are at a level considered to be genius. |
NLD (NVLD) is a non verbal learning disability. It is very simmilar to aspergers, but there are still some differences. I wanted to see if how great people with aspergers were at visualizing pictures in their head was part of it
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aspiemom1
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| Both my aspie son (7.5 yrs old) and myself have what I consider very high levels of 3d rendering in thought. My son was scoring at like the 16 year old level in visual spatial reasoning when he was 6 years and 1 day old. I dont remember my scores in this area as my last test was when I was in 5th grade (LONG TIME AGO LOL). But when I read etc, I have a the full world built in my head and as I read yes, I see the words, but it is immediately transfered to a running video in my head. These videos (can be of anything) run constantly. |
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Belfast
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Poll needs option for "other".
In some ways I have visual skill & in other ways I'm terrible at such things. I draw greatly complex mazes, those are 2-dimensional. People wonder how I create them & I cannot explain in words, I just have a "feel" for what to do next. Am no good at doing art that's 3-dimensional, nor am I talented at those "rotate this object mentally, now how would it look ?" questions. Can't visualize/imagine things well at all in my mind-except for the particular things I can easily call to mind.
So it's not just yes or no-one would have to break it down into subscales for scoring/rating.
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Angnix
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Not sure of my DX, but my visual abilities on IQ test score extremely high, and I almost always have pictures in my head
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 1:27 pm Post subject: Do you have great visual ability |
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All the better to see to better the all (topic)
I absolutely adore my visualizing ability. I would not trade it for anything! 
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I cannot answer this question. I have the same doubt.
If I test my spatial reasoning I score really high, but I don't believe I think in pictures... I don't know. Actually, I tend to have music in my head rather than pictures.. |
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Rainstorm5
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| aspiemom1 wrote: | | Both my aspie son (7.5 yrs old) and myself have what I consider very high levels of 3d rendering in thought. My son was scoring at like the 16 year old level in visual spatial reasoning when he was 6 years and 1 day old. I dont remember my scores in this area as my last test was when I was in 5th grade (LONG TIME AGO LOL). But when I read etc, I have a the full world built in my head and as I read yes, I see the words, but it is immediately transfered to a running video in my head. These videos (can be of anything) run constantly. |
Same here, I've always been able to think in complete 3D visual renderings, like an entire movie scene shot from several camera angles. My son has the same capability, but he says he doesn't do this all the time. I've always been able to remember places I've visited in great detail - what objects were there, the color of the carpet/furniture, how many people were there & what they were wearing, etc. The only thing I have a hard time with is recalling faces. For some reason, these will 'blur' or 'morph' while I'm trying to remember (for instance) a person I know who has passed on, or someone I've only met briefly. I can remember things like eye color and hair color, etc, but not the face as a whole. I can't even remember what exactly my own father looked like, so occasionally I will have to dig up old pictures and videos of him and then it comes back to me, for a time. As for the video running in your mind constantly, that's EXACTLY what happens to me and it's how I think - in entire scenes. These mind-movies never stop unless I drink alcohol to the point where I get tipsy, which is less than once every 5 years or so (and usually around Christmas, for some reason).
The funny thing is that until I came to this particular forum, I had the impression that everyone in the world also thought in this manner [extremely visual]. It never occurred to me that NTs might not be visually-dominant thinkers.
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I had to drop out of design school because I have zero spatial vision. Spatial Geometry beat me bitterly.
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Rainstorm5
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| Greentea wrote: | | I had to drop out of design school because I have zero spatial vision. Spatial Geometry beat me bitterly. |
Well, I failed Geometry class in high school. I am lousy with numbers and geometry proofs totally mystified me. Are you really good at mathematics?
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Greentea
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I was good at algebra and maths in general, till we got to Spatial Geometry.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 29, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: Re: do you have great visual abilitiy(for people with asperg |
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| matsuiny2004 wrote: | | do you have good visual abilities where you can create a picture in your head? |
Yes, but I don't know how I'd test it to see exactly how good my visual abilities are. I can create a vivid scene in my head, using real or made-up people and locations (though real people/places are more vivid) and can see a whole video in my head.
The problem comes when I have to put those images down on paper. I can't draw to save my life. Even copying a shape from one piece of paper onto another presents serious problems. I also have very poor spatial awareness.
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I have good visual abilities, but then again I have Asperger's and not NVLD.
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