A Pictorial Language?

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Is it true that a lot of people with Autism think vsually rather than in words? I was discussing this with afriend before in regards to a pictorial language for those who can't communicate with words. Something like Heiroglyphs, but a lot simpler and easier to learn. Thoughts?

Some people do communicate visually or even think/learn visually and if certain people can't speak then there is a form of sign language with its own hieroglyphics called Makaton. his is used by some and is a simplified form of sign language.

I think visually, in that I form vivid visual pictures in my mind. (I don't have good 3-d skills though, I can't turn things around and that sort of thing, though I know of Aspies that can.) However, that is a little different than a visual language. I like the verbal one well, wouldn't want to have to learn another one. Phonetic writing is much more versatile-- being able to represent many more words with fewer elements.

However there are lfa kids that learn to communicate using visual elements.

--des

i think in pictures, i'm such a huge visual learner and use a lot of sign to communicate, and use pecs, but i dont use my pecs books much, only if i need to. my mind thinks like picture flash cards, im also really good at faces for some weird reasons, really good at memorizing just by pictures, my mind sees everything visiually.

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I don't really "think in pictures" as such, but I have to read some piece of text in order to understand it fully.

Simple things can be communicated verbally, but complex things like math problems and such simply don't "stick" in my mind. I hear and understand the words, but I just don't understand what is being said.

I think in pictures and it makes it very difficult to communicate my thoughts to people as I have to constantly translate the sometimes very vague or very detailed pictures into words. However this doesn't bother me too much as I can eventually find the words or someone else finds them for me so a pictorial language system such as pecs wouldn't really appeal to me.

I don't think in pictures, but I read in pictures. That is, when I read a book of fiction, I get a complete picture of the entire scene in my head, and that's how I comprehend it. I think that's why I read so slowly compared to my wife.

If I read a book before I see the movie version, the movie is all wrong. If I see the movie first, I have a tendency to see the movie characters as I read the book.

Darmok and Jalaad at Tanagra?

Shaka when the walls fell?

Kind of like that?

What are pecs?


I am pretty sure I think and interact almost exclusively with verbal thought and reasoning. I don't believe I am very good at forming fixed imagery in my head. Until recently, I thought that was the way everybody did it. I love art, but I am not sure I could ever create anything myself- without being able to see things clearly in my head.

When I am reading fiction, I can form a moving image that is a composite of what is described and what my other senses interpret the scene to be like. It isn't concrete like a photo, but I enrich it with my perception of what the background noises would be, the smells of the place, and how thick the air would feel like to me.