Evinceo
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| I'm pretty sure I think in words (or sentences?), or abstract ideas named by words. |
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btbnnyr
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 12:56 am Post subject: |
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| Thinking in pictures is really bad when I am driving, because my thoughts in pictures seem to take over my brain and replace the pictures that I am supposed to be looking at in front of me. I try to not think at all when driving. Turning on the radio and singing along to music seems to block off the thinking in pictures, so I can focus on the road instead. |
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FMX
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| OddDuckNash99 wrote: | | I have long described the way I think as if I'm reading a teleprompter, where the words just go by and I "see" them. |
Interesting, thanks for explaining. You (and EstherJ) must have been really good at spelling bees! |
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Heidi80
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 5:51 am Post subject: |
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| I think in words and feelings |
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OddDuckNash99
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| EstherJ wrote: | | Another question - do you see it projected in front of you, or is it "behind your eyes" as my expert described?. |
I see ALL my mental imagery "behind my eyes" or "in my mind's eye." I never see them projected in front. Like you, I couldn't concentrate in the real world if that were the case.
FMX, I never was in a spelling bee per se, but I probably wouldn't have won. I'm an excellent speller, but I am horrible at tasks where I have to say things out loud and not write them down. I have a poor working memory. I am very, very visual. So, despite being a good speller and having a great memory, I do badly at things like digit span and spelling out words verbally.
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| Visual, and associative with some tactile memories thrown in for good measure. I feel like my mind is playing leap frog all the time, and I have a hard time sticking to a conversation. Most of the time I have a song running in my head as a background to stay focused on the here and now. |
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EstherJ
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I'm great at writing things down. I was always years ahead of the norm as a kid in spelling.
Saying things out loud - another matter.
I don't have time to concentrate on my words, so I don't say things right.
Never went to a spelling bee. Really wanted to, though.
I think where it helps is with foreign languages. I don't have to connect my vocal words to a picture to learn them. I can't. The word means what it means, I just learn what it "looks" like. It saves time.
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jackbus01
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What does it mean to "think in pictures" anyway? What are the different ways of thinking?
Also, to those that are talking about "thinking in words", aren't words really just a special form of picture.
Seeing a picture of a cup and seeing the word "cup" written seem equivalent to me.
Anyway what does it mean to not think in pictures? |
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CrinklyCrustacean
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| Rascal77s wrote: | | I think in pictures, unfortunately it's paint by number. |
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 11:27 am Post subject: Re: If you don't think in pictures then... |
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| Thea wrote: | So, I think in pictures, but apparently not everyone thinks like that. I'm pretty confused. So I have some questions if you are not someone who thinks in pictures:
How do you daydream?
When you think about what you did yesterday or any other memory, does it not play back in your head like a video or in pictures, at all?
If somebody says "cat" do you not visualise different types of cats?
So do you just see like.. Nothingness? What is it like?
By the way I don't mean to offend anyone about the way they think or anything, I just want to understand because I'm very curious |
I think Neurotypicals likely think in a mixture of things, they could have vague images when they daydream, which could include sound. They could also think in a verbal way (not talking aloud, just thinking of words). They may or may not think in full sentences (this is all a random guess)
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Matt62
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Definiely pictures here, but with a sound track, if people are involved. You say "cat" I picture a feline, domestic or maybe a Leopard.
If I am recalling something from my past, I sometimes start talking for the people in the picture(s) my mind conjures up.
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Senath
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| OddDuckNash99 wrote: | | EstherJ wrote: | | Another question - do you see it projected in front of you, or is it "behind your eyes" as my expert described?. |
I see ALL my mental imagery "behind my eyes" or "in my mind's eye." I never see them projected in front. Like you, I couldn't concentrate in the real world if that were the case.
FMX, I never was in a spelling bee per se, but I probably wouldn't have won. I'm an excellent speller, but I am horrible at tasks where I have to say things out loud and not write them down. I have a poor working memory. I am very, very visual. So, despite being a good speller and having a great memory, I do badly at things like digit span and spelling out words verbally. |
I can not spell very well unless I write the word down or type it. I have to go through the motions with my hand/s. When I'm doing math in my head like a simple arithmetic problem i usually have to "write" the numbers and signs out with my finger and then I "see" the numbers on whatever surface I wrote them on. |
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Gazelle
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I mainly think in pictures and sometimes think in words or text as well. For example, when listening to classical music I may think of people dancing in medieval times or a scene from a movie, etc.
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Most of my thinking is done with my "internal narrator."
However, I can also see still pictures and moving video.
I highly doubt I have a "special" way of thinking.
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btbnnyr
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Some NTs told me that when they thought in pictures, they thought in vague general impressions that are pictures, not in clearstalcrys detailed pictures like photographs. Maybe the amount of detail is the difference between NT picture-thinking and autistic picture-thinking.
They also told me when they look at the world, they see the general features, but not the details until they look to see the details, and I said that I see the small details at the same time that I see the big picture or that I see the small details before I see the big picture. We guessed that what I see when I look at the world may be similar to what we all see when we look at photographs of the world, the difference being the amount of detail that is seen at any given moment.
There was a study about visual perceptual load that showed the autistic people see a greater number of things at the same time.
They also told me that when they are driving, they filter out eberrything that is not relevant to driving. I guess that it is the same for doing other things. I don't filter as much, so I see lots of things all at once. But even if we are all focused on looking at things with no filtering, I just see moar things at the same time. I think that this is why it is fast for me to find a street name on a detailed city map, but I get overloaded driving down the city street. |
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