Are Aspie women more often auditory/verbal thinkers...

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This is a quick Multiple Intelligence questionnaire, which is a bit of a cross between thinking and learning styles. It shows a graph of the result. I'm not sure if it would be possible to find a test to really do justice to autistic thinking.

http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resourc ... /index.htm

Instead of having one intelligence it is claimed that we have several different intelligences.

Kinaesthetic - Body Smart
You will enjoy sports and are good at swimming, athletics, gymnastics and other sports.
Linguistic - Word Smart
You will enjoy reading, writing and talking about things.
Logical - Number Smart
You will be good at mathematics and other number activities; you are also good at solving problems.
Interpersonal - People Smart
You will like to mix with other people and you will belong to lots of clubs. You like team games and are good at sharing.
Intrapersonal - Myself Smart
You will know about yourself and your strengths and weaknesses. You will probably keep a diary.
Musical - Music Smart
You will enjoy music and can recognise sounds, and timbre, or the quality of a tone.
Visual/Spatial - Picture Smart
You will be good at art and also good at other activities where you look at pictures like map reading, finding your way out of mazes and graphs.
Naturalistic - Nature Smart
You will like the world of plants and animals and enjoy learning about them.

Thanks.
* Visual: 9
* Aural: 1
* Read/Write: 14
* Kinesthetic: 10
You have a multimodal (VRK) learning preference.

60% of people have multimodal, which is what I received. It sounds right. It'd be interesting to see other female aspies post their results to see if they correlate. It's interesting that my aural is 1 when the thread is discussing auditory thinking ability.


It's odd that this insinuates that I have a strength with numbers over word; I don't.

I'm not a visual thinker at all. I cannot think in pictures. But I do dream in pictures.

I'm a visual/verbal/kinesthetic learner, I need diagrams, words, and doing. I need the input of colour and imagery, and music and enjoy the sound of individual voices/accents.
I'm a left/right balanced thinker, with 50% male on the Male/Female brain test.

I'm a verbal thinker, auditory is mainly music, but under that I have what I can only describe as a blind visual/spatial 3D thinking system. It's everything but the pictures. Very sensory and very descriptive, in that I can sense images, but not see them. And both types of thinking work together, I don't need to swap between them, but the slower I'm thinking, the more verbal it is.

Perhaps due to logical thinking and problem solving, rather than just number?
Things like crossword puzzles are linguistic, but there's also a problem-solving component. It really depends where the dividing line between categories is.

It's like the separation between learning by doing, which can be quite manual and less physical, and the more sporty/movement-biased kinesthetic intelligence, where I drop right down, probably due to dyspraxia. I think kinesthetic thinking has some relation to creativity as well.

I do find that the type of questions asked can give useful insights into thought patterns, which might not show in results, because they're not gathering that information, so doing the tests can be useful for that.
There are more comprehensive versions of this type of test, but most require logins etc.

It tends to strike me that NVLD isn't so much a thing in itself as a subset of AS. It seems often to be applied at the non-medical educational end, for one thing, with a correspondingly large amount of detail devoted to school stuff. It appears to me to be what you get if an Aspie (usually a girl) has a very verbal turn of mind, an auditory style of learning and perception, and noticeable deficits in visual-spatial processing, maths and motor skills on top of the usual Aspie social deficits and problems with executive function.

Yes, this does describe me. No, I'm not an expert.

Since most people (except for Temple Grandin and Professor Baron-Cohen, for example) don't argue that AS absolutely has to be maths/engineering-friendly with visual thinking , I don't think I need to replace my mental self-description of AS with a clunky disability that a) not many people have heard of, b) sounds as if it means the opposite to what it means, and c) hasn't got a strong internet advocacy-and-help network the way AS does.

I'd say Aspie women are more likely than Aspie men to be very strongly verbal and also to mask our problems by being diffident and hanging back. I also tried a poll about Aspies and fiction. It wasn't proper evidence, but it suggests there's a distinct subset of us that 'get' fiction in a way we don't 'get' direct social intuition, as opposed to finding fiction too murky and social.

There are many Aspie boys out there who fit the profile for maths/engineering geek. But I don't think it's the whole story.

I'm not so poor in lingustics! I'm pretty good! But it thinks that lingustics = speaking. I'm not good in speaking. I prefer writing. But I love to analyse the words and sentences.

I'm more visual/hands-on. I'm not an auditory learner at all.

I think visually or in abstracts...often I can't put what I think in words when I speak.

I also have trouble if someone says directions verbally, I need them written down. I much prefer to write than speak.

I am not diagnosed yet though.