sort30030 wrote:
I am not sure if this is an aspie characteristic or just me. I also don't really know how others think but from experience, I would say that I am much better than most people at visualizing things.
Anyways, I am really good at remembering relative locations of objects and places and can basically picture the landscape, buildings, and major features of places I've been to. After driving somewhere once or twice, I know exactly where to turn when I see the surrounding because I recognize it but I wouldn't be able to explain directions to anyone else. After going somewhere a few times, I can pretty much have a map of the entire scenery from one place to another and get to the other destination easily but not know any street names or signs.
I almost always try to visualize things when I solve problems and can sometimes see the equation in my head and manipulate it when I am doing math problems.
Are you like this?
Does anyone have a photographic memory or know what it is if it exists?
If so, do you have strategies for improving your visualization ability?
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For some reason, I can visualize stationary photographs/scenes I've seen (in a way). This seems to be a kind of visual recognition memory. I do have extreme difficulty trying to spontaneously draw a picture (a tad of constructional apraxia). I have central auditory processing disorder which I feel has caused a greater ability/skill in the visual area vs the auditory area. I would not make a good movie director (directors are artists) due to the time it takes for me to compose a scene with actors/dialogue in my brain/mind/on paper. There are a few very skilled cartoonists who can rapidly create comic book scenes in black and white (storyboards) which are later transformed into 3D scenes in a movie using props and actors. That's a very unusual process (my view) involving sustained attention, concentration, and visualization and it is balanced with the idea of making a film people will go to see and enjoy/so some scenes can be deleted and others added so as to strive toward that outcome.
31 Dec 2007, 12:46 am
