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blossoms
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 Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:10 pm Post subject: How many of you process thought through associations |
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I have been wondering about this for some time...
How many of you process thought through associations and hunches? In my case it leads me to so many new terrains, and the hunch is usually right...
But the down side is that I can't juggle many thoughts or see the bigger picture, I have to get there slowly and that means I can be a step behind ... which is also not that good for multi-tasking...
Does anyone think in similar ways? How has it affected you? |
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Sciatrix
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| I do this a lot, especially for words which may be unfamiliar. I also have mild synesthesia, so I also normally have color associations for words and often concepts. These tend to be similar for related words/concepts. |
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jkennedy293
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| When I come up the right answer, I usually can't explain how I got there. This obviously goes over well with NT's. Alot of times , like you, I have to make several steps before I get to the right answer. It is very frustrating. |
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My way of thinking is different from NTs but I'm not sure if it's like that. I do sometimes go through steps to solve stuff and can't describe how I solved it.
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neshamaruach
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:25 pm Post subject: Re: How many of you process thought through associations |
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| blossoms wrote: | How many of you process thought through associations and hunches? In my case it leads me to so many new terrains, and the hunch is usually right...
But the down side is that I can't juggle many thoughts or see the bigger picture, I have to get there slowly and that means I can be a step behind ... which is also not that good for multi-tasking...
Does anyone think in similar ways? How has it affected you? |
What a great question!
I think associatively rather than linearly. If I try to think linearly, I can't remember where I was in the sequence and I get frustrated. When I think associatively, I feel very creative. I come up with all sorts of neat connections between what look like disparate modes of thought or unrelated things. For instance, when I look at different religions, I can see interesting similarities between them that others might miss. Or even within the same religious tradition, I can connect one story to another just through intuition and I find that very enjoyable. Luckily, a lot of my religious tradition works by associative logic (rather than aristotelian logic), so I'm kind of in the flow of that.
For some reason, this way of thinking always leads me to see the "big picture," and that's a problem for me. I can see so much so fast that it's hard for me to come down with my feet on the ground and go through a process. I become extremely impatient. I generally deal with this by giving myself some other project to do so that I can have the feeling that I'm moving forward on something. I also find that if I give myself something tangible to do, like working with objects, I calm down and feel very reassured.
I don't think in pictures, but I often see words in my mind when I'm thinking or speaking. I'm extremely print oriented. I've never had a problem with spelling. When I was in college, I could study my notes and in the exam flip through my notebook in my mind and find the page I was looking for. I wasn't often able to synthesize the information, but for rote memorization, it was a good gift to have. Now that I'm older, I don't seem to be able to do this anymore. It just may be that my brain is full.  |
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Carbonhalo
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How many times at school was I penalised for "not showing the working"?
How many times did I have the correct answer, but the working had errors? (having been filled in after the solution)
At least I wasn't often accused of cheating. |
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patternist
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| Carbonhalo wrote: | How many times at school was I penalised for "not showing the working"?
How many times did I have the correct answer, but the working had errors? (having been filled in after the solution)
At least I wasn't often accused of cheating. |
Ugh, that's me to a T. Or, I actually worked through it on paper but no one could understand my format and/or handwriting.
Actually, I took a test in high school which was said to pinpoint thinking style, my style was "abstract global"; global is the type which is most likely to make these types of associations, rather than linear. I'm not sure why we were given the test, other than the fact that my history teacher thought it was neat and wanted to know how to "reach" us better....
The types were:
concrete global
abstract global
conrete linear
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CelticRose
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Associative thought processes are one of the many benefits of Asperger's. 
This trait often helps me to solve problems that NTs can't.
My memory is very associative too.
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pakled
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I see patterns. I also solve things by looking at them; I just see the answer. Now whether it's the right answer... |
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: Re: How many of you process thought through associations |
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| blossoms wrote: | I have been wondering about this for some time...
How many of you process thought through associations and hunches? In my case it leads me to so many new terrains, and the hunch is usually right...? |
I can definately relate...I think what I do is draw on my brain's database of all my past experience. Whatever question or problem I'm faced with is referenced at the speed of thought across my collective experience. In an instant I have an answer or soution and a feel for how likely it is to be accurate. The more experience I have that can be associated with the task at hand, the more likely I am to have a correct or accurate answer.
| blossoms wrote: | | But the down side is that I can't juggle many thoughts or see the bigger picture, I have to get there slowly and that means I can be a step behind ... which is also not that good for multi-tasking...? |
I think assessing the 'big picture' takes another style of thinking. I can definately keep perspective on how the details relate to the bigger goal or mission, but I tend to focus more on completing the steps and eliminating the roadblocks on the way there.
As to juggling/multitasking - my mind works more like old school Windows - not true multitasking, but fast task-swithing. I can shift between things but can't really keep more than one 'active' at any given time. Sometimes the active one doesn't let the others have any CPU time. |
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ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo
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| I'm too associative for my own good. |
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JetLag
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All my thoughts are by visual associations, which is to say in pictures.
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ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo
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| JetLag wrote: | | All my thoughts are by visual associations, which is to say in pictures. |
I think that's fascinating. What I have is a combination of thinking patterns, sometimes visual, sometimes auditory. It's difficult for me to imagine thinking in pictures all the time, for everything.
When I type, I can sort of hear the words in my head. Not really hear them, but sort of. Hard to explain. Don't worry, it's not an hallucination. I can hear the words and know what to type because of this.
I was wondering, do you see the words you intend to type? Do you picture them? How does this work visually?
I think in pictures sometimes too, just not all the time and I am not able to while typing. |
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