What do people mean: "Autistics think in pictures"

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I seem to have hits in a lot of these thinking styles. Inventor, Writer, Builder, mechanic, and well grounded in science.

Now how do I get there. I do have pictures, detailed, moving if need be, and controlled.

I would say that thought is too quick to catch directly, so it pulls something out of the file, word, if direct, picture for broader, and several pictures for something like this, something like that, form something between. This is rapid, and where most live.

I design things, start with an image, and modify it, by comparing it with other things, like a boat hul, still it is one thing, moving another, moving fast another, planing hull, and turning brings in more, another set of stresses, and as it is near flying, it can flip with ease. Then how does that happen with waves, wind, and where will it fail.

In writing I see a story in ten or twenty threads woven together, each much flow from beginning to end, and make harmonious patterns all through the story, no knots and tangles. The story moves from thread to thread, they are not the story, but make it.

I have said several times that our highest and best use would be as a think tank. In my year here I have not run into anything as hot as this thread.

We understand the basic nature of thought. In 61 years I have never heard it expressed better.

I'm not quite sure if I understand what you mean by "thinking in pictures" or "thinking in words".

I definitely think more in pictures than in words. I use metaphor a lot, and like Age1600 said about directions, that's me exactly.

I think in pictures and words. i hear the words in head.

Just still images would seem a bit limited, I think. I mean, I get a lot of those too, but less.

I've been analyzing my thought processes lately, mostly because they have been changing. I think this is due to the medication I've been taking...I'm thinking less and less in words and more in visual and 'feelings' (the best word to describe it so far, IMO)

I don't know if this is a good thing, I sometimes get stuck on words. I usually just "drop" them as a result.

This is a great question...I've often wondered myself...

If someone asks me how to spell a word, I HAVE TO close my eyes and see the word in my head in order to tell them...otherwise, I get confused. When I plan an event, I normally close my eyes and picture it all set up, etc...in my mind and then talk to people about what I see...I cannot just talk to them about what it will look like or what to do, without closing my eyes and seeing everything in my mind...

Still have no idea what that means. My husband laughs at me when I close my eyes to talk because he says when I do, whatever comes it will be worth everyone listening...hehe...I guess if I don't close my eyes, then it's not worth people listening...haha

I wish there was some sort of elaborate and concise definition of what everyone considers "thinking."

Do you mean imagining?

Do you mean how you go about your day and react to your environment?

- for example if someone asked you a question: -> would you actually "think of the pictures of what you wanted to say...free of sounds or words" and understand them as metaphors for the words you are about to convey?

- Or do you mean it processes naturally...but as it processes you begin to see pictures with thoughts?

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Right now Im quite frankly stumped, until I have a more concise description of what others are looking for.

The best way I can likely describe how I "think" in terms of reacting to my environment, is telepathically/sixth sense/etc.

Basically a large combination of millions of bits of data is streamed seemingly instantaneously to me as if by the universe itself.

From there I can simulate whatever that data is to me through an imaginative form of ALL possible senses/categories(Feelings, sound, pictures, time, touch, words, etc.).

The DATA...before it becomes what i might call imagination i can describe no better than to say it Simply is. Almost like some form of omniscience. Where I already know the answer.

I don't mean to say I am omniscient or anything of that nature...but the way I process could best be described that it is THIS manner. I simply arrive at the answer without knowing how.

Than using observation, and what I call "IMAGINATION" I am able to determine if that data was correct or if i need to do another of those Omniscient shuffle processes.