Do I have a "visual thinking disability"??

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Hello.
Is there a diagnosis for NOT being able to "think in pictures" or visualize anything?
Or imagining smells and tastes??
I know all people think differently but often just because someone naturally thinks in pictures it does not mean that they do not have the ability to think using words, but I do simply not have the brain power to visualize anything, I just can't.
So is it just who I am or could it be a " real thing"
And could this have something to do with that I once fell on my head when I was under one years old and went unconscious (but woke up later and seemed fine)??
It is causing some problems in my day to day life so I just wondered what you people thought of it.

Maybe, maybe not.

You're an intelligent person. I bet if someone helped you with this, that you will improve in your visual abilities.

I've heard inability to visualize is common in nonverbal learning disability.

Maybe you should try a hobby that involves visualizing things. I sometimes feel like I have trouble visualizing things, but I do better when the images are related to something I'm doing.

I'd never before heard of people with nonverbal learning disorder having trouble with visualizing. Interesting!
I always thought that was just a part of autism.

It's common for people higher on the spectrum to be far better at verbal tasks (language use, word recognition, spelling, phonetic decoding, etc.) than at nonverbal ones (pattern recognition, spatial discrimination, visualization, etc.), so it's possible that your inability to see in pictures is just an extreme manifestation of that. When you were assessed and diagnosed with PDD, did you receive an IQ test? The visual and performance IQ subscores should give you an indication as to where your strengths and weaknesses lie.

The thing is that, my brain can understand how to manipulate 3D objects, but it is as if my brain does it without me "involved in the process", it means that i know how to for example fold a certain piece of paper so it becomes a cube, i cannot visualize it, i just know.
But the map part is impossible for me to understand and visualize. So i'll check with the teacher when i see her that if anything can be done or if they can help me in any way.
I did not have a IQ test, but they did test me in different areas, none of which showed anything "different" (except of course how low my emotional (and social?) understanding/intelligence was compared to my facts & patterns.