How do you think - visual / verbal / patterns / other

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Pattern thinker.

Extremely musical(special interest) and interested in maths.

Also tend to OCD type thinking, due to the negative side of making patterns with life

My thinking is mostly visual. When I memorize things for school, I use charts and pictures from the textbooks. When I take the exam, I can pinpoint the exact location on the chart or textbook in my mind that relates to the specific question if I am familiar with it. I also have a much easier time reading directions when I see pictures with them. People must show me rather than tell me how to do things for me to understand them.

I think in all of them, basically.

I think in bunnies.

I'm recently diagnosed aspie 9months ago, still learning. I'm still trying to do as you, trying to figure out how my brain works.

How I "do not think?"

I'm a working Engineer, Civil Engineer. I have no Engineering License, why? Because I'm unable to pass the Civil Engineering Surveying Exam. So I "do not think" like a Engineering Surveyor. Why? I think it's because of my AUTISM. Engineering Surveyors think with geomatics, spatial geomatics. Good Surveyors are like the Abstract Artists, and I am AUTISTIC so at best I visualize and draw like Temple Grandin which is concrete. When I draw a building, like Temple describes in book, I walk around the property edges first drawing as I walk. Good Surveyors can think sequentially, and have a top-down generalizing view of drawing.

All distractions sensory ruin me to meltdown (how I do not think).
Mindblindness knows no boundary, Nuerotypicals are like sharks (firing me, hate me...etc...), and I am their feed. (how I do not think)


How I "do think?"
I'm excellent at data collection very precise and accurate. The only issue with data collection is writing down transferring the data appropriately to paper/computer. My mind sees the data, my mind says data to itself in my head, then on occasion I write down the incorrect data (not on purpose).

When I draw a building, like Temple describes in book, I walk around the property edges first drawing as I walk. I believe it's called associating pictures and cataloguing pictures. I really like to draw, and always have. I don't draw at work though, the CAD work space in cubicles is very "small talk", and sensory unfriendly.

I did best in Differential Equations Math, did ok in 3-dimensional Calculas yet had to take one Calculas Class over too hard for me. I took a few computer programming languages, but stopped due to money problems, sensory problems, and being undiagnosed autism.

Music? I think of songs in my head constantly. Playing music though wasn't/isn't conducive (is it safe?) in any of my living environments. I love the quiet solitude, not the loud noise. I love Buddhist Chanting though, and think my main monk I chant to was probly autistic. I am very hyperactive, playing music isn't what I do in my free time.

I'm a visual thinker and a musical pattern thinker.

A mixture of the top two. Visual, pattern/musical. I'm a horrible verbal thinker, which makes me bad at explaining my thoughts I guess.

Most definitely verbal as I have aphantasia.

Mostly visual thinker - or 'mini-film' thinker, because images in my mind can move and transform, but I'm also good at pattern recognition and sometimes I can't even say I'm thinking at the moment, but something is going on behind the scenes and then - bam! - I got the solution.
I sometimes call it "feeling into" - like if there's a problem with a computer at work I can just kind of look at it, concentrate and then just suddenly get a revelation without even a single verbal thought. There may be one or two images flashing in my mind, but most of this kind of "thinking" doesn't even enter consciousness. Then people ask "how did you know?" and I don't know... how Weird thing, but it happens to me a lot.

I do think in words too if I concentrate on this mode of thinking (it's not a default mode, but I can do it well too) but then it does not translate into producing speech very well (I have no problem with writing though). Thinking in images is the most incompatible with speech, I could maybe draw something and that would be easier and I need time to switch the mode and describe my thoughts. Wish I could just project my 'mini-films' straight into people's heads or on a screen

Verbal. It always intrigued me how humans would have been able to think in the prehistorical days before languages existed. Recently I found I have aphantasia, and not everyone is like me. I cannot imagine being able to have any thought processes at all, except by holding a sort of inner conversation with myself. So without language, I would be stuck!

All of my work has been in the verbal domain (teaching English, writing, editing, proofreading and library work), so I think entirely in words.

I think in a combination of visual and verbal. It's hard to explain. Like, I'll have a vivid picture in my mind, and I'll also see the words that I could use to describe the picture. Sometimes I'll know what I want to say, though, and it just comes out as gibberish anyway.

I often come up with movies and music videos in my head. A lot of my stories could easily translate into short films, because they are translations of short films already.

My visual thinking helps me learn vocab words in different languages. Like one of those strings that connects different ideas in those conspiracy theory shows, I guess. However, grammar confuses me because beyond the basics it's too abstract to connect to an image.

Can anyone explain the pattern thinking style better, I didn't understand that.

My thinking style is a mix of verbal and pictures/movies but I can't do it consciously it rather just happens.
Many times I think of nothing at all.
When I think “visually" it is most of the time that I remember something.
For example if someone said apple and I would think about an apple, I would see me picking apples in the garden ( rather remember), sitting in the house where the apples are stored in, buying apples in the supermarket, eating apples, how I saw ryuk eating an apple in death note ( a very good anime I can recommend), baking apple pie, eating an baked apple at Christmas, and many more. But all these things are video and I also can smell and taste the apple in some cases, not all.

But most of the time I only think verbally.
I also am good at imagining things.
I like to hear books as audio and lay in my bad and imagine the world. Then I can become a character in this world in my dreams and control what happens. Sometimes I write and extend the story myself. But I always thought a lot of people make this

I'm a visual thinker. Even words have to be pictured in my head before they can make sense. If someone is talking to me, their every word forms a picture in my head

How do you think of abstract words?
Can you have a picture for abstract things that are no objects?
How do you for example see the word " for"

I ticked "verbal" because I mostly think in words. But having read the discussion, now I'm not sure.

I write fiction because I am 'seized' by visuals I 'have to' express -- this despite the fact that I have aphantasia (i.e., can't actually visualize things in my head). I have vivid and in-color dreams, so I am capable of visualizing while unconscious, but I cannot consciously access that ability. Sometimes the images that grab my brain are from dreams, sometimes I know they're inspired by some visual medium (movie, TV, painting), but whatever inspired it, when it pops up and demands attention my brain has taken the image and 'deepened it' so I can pull a story out of it by struggling to translate it to words. I know what the people in the image are thinking and feeling, I know how they got there, I know how they interconnect, but all that "knowing" is nonverbal, and I have to find a way to verbalize it.

In that case I've somehow done a ton of non-verbal thinking, and I have to somehow translate that thinking into verbal form. Ditto with math, back in the day -- hated arithmetic, because I'm terrible at rote memorization, but I was always making 'intuitive leaps' (that I didn't realize I was doing), and getting in trouble for using techniques we hadn't been taught that I wasn't even consciously aware of and certainly couldn't put into words. Which I would guess would be pattern thinking?

I also sometimes get distracted by images associated with words (or pronunciations -- where a word sounds like something that in context it clearly isn't). Makes me wonder if I wouldn't be a more visual thinker if that system functioned better.