Difference between the way NTs and Apies think

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If there really are three basic modes of autistic thought, I would suspect that for each of us one mode is dominant, with the other two operational when needed. I mean, I'm a music / pattern thinker, but I have learned to write. The more I write, the stronger the links I create between my pattern language and my verbal language, so that I can write well.

Likewise for visuality. I have learned to identify patterns in what I see so that I can recreate images in my head and draw them. But as you might suspect, this works best for geometric and architectural subjects.

So I hypothesize all of us are like this.

However, if any one of you believes that you do not have one mode which is truly dominant, I would like to hear (notice I used the verb "hear", not "see" or "read"?) your explanation for what happens inside your head.

I think it all depends on the person. I don't usually think in pictures, but I know there's plenty of people that do. But when I learn a new phrase, or idiom, I try to rationalize it through its literal meaning to try to remember it.

Posting late but I'm a pattern thinker that actually does well with reading and comprehension, as I'm gifted verbally. So I wouldn't take T. Grandin's description literally.

Pattern thinkers with high verbal skills probably end up learning several languages whereas ones with high math skills would be stellar engineers, etc.

Oh I wanted to add that my thinking is seriously fragmented too. When I'm reading text I'm not thinking right then, just reading, or when watching tv or really doing anything I'm totally focused on the task-- what I'm doing, I can't run simultaneous programs lol it's all input or output (sensory).