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

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...than visual?

This seems to be one of the strongest traits of NVLD, as well, which some say is very much like the "female presentation" of AS. Aspies and autistics are usually thought of as being very visual thinkers.

I am VERY auditory/verbal and am impaired with visual thinking. I can switch over and use the visual side with practice, but it's at the expense of auditory/verbal learning, I've never been balanced. Maybe relying very heavily on one style is just true of AS in general and being visual is more common, as most Aspies are assumed to be left-brain dominant.

Perhaps. It is difficult for me to see things in my head. I don't know if it's so much as being a visual thinker as being a visual learner though, which is characteristic of autism.

Same, even very simple things that most NTs wouldn't have trouble with.

I learn by writing it down or by attempting it myself (where applicable). For example, when learning a new card game, you can tell me all the rules but I won't actually get it until I play it myself.

No one is balanced but my impressions from the few AS women i knew is that u certainly have a point,
For instance,my GF is amazing photographer but even her most abstract pictures are very verbal and philosophical in nature and too often she tend to confuse words with reality which makes her too honest for her own hood most of the time,she can understand math only when i tell it to her as a story or a relation between people,
I never thought of that this way but she really tend to take the verbal aspect of life to the extreme and in much need of visual balanced to get a better sense of reality and what is possible and when,
Perhaps that why she taking pictures all the time.
BTW
i'm a very visual thinker but we have the same taste in music and politics and many other things
a balanced verbal/visual person do not exist
at least not yet
But strangely enough people who tend to be very visual or very verbal are much closer to that balance than the average person but surly enough this kind of tendency comes with a very heavy price ,

I'm a visual thinker/learner.

I'm female and I find I can understand and learn from diagrams or examples much more readily than I can from verbal instructions, though I can understand verbal instructions too. If someone is explaining something to me out loud I find I have to translate it in my head to an outline or blocks of information in order to grasp it, but I do this automatically, so I don't tend to get lost either way.

I would be interested to see more responses on this thread. I am highly visual in my thinking and am not well balanced. However, I am starting to find that I do not think like most other female aspies I know or read about.

I was wondering, is it that more aspie females are verbal or auditory learners or are female aspies often more balanced (at least for aspies) in their abilities than male aspies?

I think in pictures and I'm visual learner. I hate verbal instructions, because I don't understand them. Even in shop I must see the price, because assistant's words mean almost nothing to me. Maybe they think I'm a little bit deaf, but I don't care. I must see!

Women are more often auditory/verbal thinkers - aspies or not.

I'm balanced, and a lot of my learning is through lectures and music. I also remember words that I've heard and read, from years ago. I also think in pictures, as well. I'm still a good artist, as I've recently found out. I have pictures popping into my mind, all the time.

I don't think either one is, it's just that Temple Grandin ended up creating a lot of stereotypes.

Auditory and verbal are not the same thing. You can have visual/verbal, auditory/verbal, and kinesthetic/verbal at the very least, and probably more.

I'm autistic and a woman but I'm way the opposite of verbal (and no the opposite of verbal is not "visual") and not particularly auditory.

What would kinesthetic verbal mean? Is there some guide that exists that differentiates common types of thinking? I've never been able to describe my mode of thinking well, I just know that I don't think in pictures.

As I recall (I read the book years ago) she wanted to name her book "From a Cow's Eye View" or something like that, but the publisher thought it was too weird, so it became "Thinking in Pictures."

There is a difference between thinking styles and learning styles.
Here are a couple of tests which might be of interest.

This is quite a good learning style questionnaire, because you can select as many of the responses which fit, rather than only choosing one. This allows for the fact that different approaches suit different situations.

The preferences are Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, Kinesthetic, Multimodal. There are helpsheets for each, with tips for learning and communication skills.

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page. ... stionnaire

Your scores were:

Visual: 11
Aural: 5
Read/Write: 13
Kinesthetic: 8
You have a multimodal (VARK) learning preference.