Are you a visual, pattern, or facts thinker?

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Pattern thinker, no doubt.

I'm lousy with numbers and mental calculation, but in high school I had straight A:s in all math courses and deliberately choose most difficult ones on the subject. It all came down to sensing the invisible connections inside the equations.

Another subject I had straight A:s in was language. Because language is also all about the hidden meaning that emerges rationally through the arrangement of letters, words and sentences.

I can easily make a mental picture of things but don't prefer that way of thinking unless I'm forced to.

I don't understand fact-thinking at all. In my world there are no facts, because everything is about the connection between things and not the things themselves. "Facts" are relative and ever-changing. Patterns remain. The big caveat here is of course that this is my worldview which is based on my thinking. I'm sure there are other ways to see the world in.

Visual and pattern thinking are my strengths.

Factual thinking esp. facts presented in printed words, graphs and images also play roles. Factual thinking (along with visual and pattern thinking) can even get a boost if presented in thoughtfully narrated documentaries e.g., PBS shows. Even thoughtful comedies can also pique interest.

I'm mostly a verbal/word thinker - I have a running monologue in my mind or spoken aloud most of the time, and hyperlexia. I'm reasonable with patterns - I can feel somehow how the parts of my computer code fit together, for example. Very little visual thinking; my "mind's eye" is very poor with only fleeting images that I can't hold onto at all. If there is such a thing as "proprioceptive thinking", I'm terrible at it - I can't project another person's body motion onto mine at all, so I struggle to copy actions which I'm shown, and have to learn them by trial and error ("tell, don't show", in reverse of the common cliche.)

are you a cat?

I mostly think in words, though I also see vague mental pictures of whatever I think about. I think I'm also decent at finding patterns and making connections, and I was good at math. I'm not good at visual processing.

Verbal and pattern thinking. I only think visually when I have to drive somewhere or track an object and its only for short periods of time.

cats have AS, I have AS, so I think like a cat.

pattern i guess

I'm not any kind of a thinker I'm stupid, OKAY????????????

When I think about math and physics, I tend to be visual, but when I think of social interactions I tend to think in terms of logic and patterns. It hurts me both times: in my career as a physist I wasted several years trying to visualize a certain concepts because I won't accept them until I do; and in terms of my social skills I also wasted several years over the fact that I noticed the patters that I interpretted in a sinister way that I was pissed about. So yeah I guess being too stubborn to get past my ways of thinking is something that caused me dearly. But apparently I am both visual and pattern, but I do each of those two things at a very wrong times.

Pattern

When I am typing or reading I also hear the words. It just flows there, somewhere in the back of my mind, like narrator of a story. But at the same time I will be seeing a clear video of what is being described.
Reading and typing is difficult for me though, especially when there is some noise that interferes with the narrator.
If I see pictures/charts or create stuff my focus doesn't get interrupted no matter how loud the area is (well, unless it causes me sensory overload).
If I am forced to read/write/hear with some background sounds I get easily frustrated and I can't focus at all. It makes me unable to translate the printed/heard words to images either and what I write/type isn't what I wanted to write/type (I will change letters order and forget or mistake words).

Usually my mind is pretty silent though - I see pictures/videos/maps/charts all the time but all I hear are earworm songs, if anything at all. That is - unless I am reading/typing or thinking how to describe something to someone else. Oh. And I will sometimes hear my mind say single words, commenting the reality. Usually in Japaneese (nani?, doushite?, wa doko?, arienai, muri - zettai muri). Too much anime.

I am a facts thinker and a visual learner. Infographics = bae.

Definitely not visual.

Thinking it's probably facts just based on the way I constantly tell everyone facts, but I certainly notice patterns a lot too.

Have you got definitions of the three?

I'm purely a pattern thinker. It gives me some difficulty learning. I didn't speak until I was 4. A doctor and later my parents taught me words (even before I could speak) using this machine with cards that fed through it and showed a picture and words in a clear window. They would show me the picture and point to the word and say it. But I understand patterns inside, so I have to translate from a spoken or written word into a picture and translate the picture into a meaningful pattern. And when I speak, I have to find the picture that goes with the pattern I'm thinking and then pull up the word from memory that goes with the picture. Sometimes there is no picture for a pattern, or no word to go with them! It's slow, so I have a slight learning disability. But I'm extremely good with patterns, which is what helped me with things like physics, economics, differential geometry, and software and firmware programming (which is what I did at work for 38 years). And there are many patterns that dance around inside my head that never get translated and communicated. If I focus, I can even see the little pictures that words get translated into.

Pattern only, as far as I can tell, and not good enough to see patterns in math, etc. I have to see patterns over and over and over again, in total mystery (to me), and then it "pops" into place and I've got it all.