What is your type of specialized thinking?

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What is your type of specialized thinking?

Explain your answer too if you want.

From Temple Grandin's website ( http://www.templegrandin.com/templehome.html ):

Mine are: #1 Visual, #3 Verbal logic, and a little bit of #2.

I answered the way I did because eventho I talked early as a toddler, drawing was very important to me, I often got caught in class while drawing lol, and I very often see a situation in my head as Temple Grandin describes. Also I always tend to analyse a lot and express my thought verbally (with people I am comfortable with), mostly in writing tho. I also always loved music, but I learned later in life so it hasn't been a primary way to express myself and/or my thoughts, eventho I also expressed myself by singing, very often (I almost forgot that).

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I think in pictures, but I love Math and I have logical mind. I love music too, because it speaks instead me and gives me a big load of emotions. I can't choose the answer.

I think your answer would be "A mix of 2 or all of them"

I love music too

I can't choose either.

Visual and verbal. Been saying for awhile that my memory in both visual and verbal is highly detailed. Well it's more auditory than visual. Are they the same thing?
It's hard to explain but I think in pictures and sounds the most and have a good memory for them. And sounds isn't music because it has to deal with the pitch and tone of peoples voices.

For me, a mix of all of them.

Visual, I have a photographic memory.

I may be wrong but I understood "verbal" as being both auditory and textual (as in text you read or write), it may refer more to auditory tho I am not totally sure about that. It would include speech, writing, reading, listening to words/speech. I consider myself more visual because of the reasons I explained, but also usually it is easier for me to remember people by their general appearance and attitude, then by their names (people I don't know much and/or I don't see often). Then after explaining my answers I remembered that I was always singing too as a child, but now I don't do that as much because I don't feel at ease with my husband and stepson as much as I was with my parents, I still sing quite often tho whenever I am alone in a room, and I often am stuck with a particular song or music in my head, these last 2 weeks its been Non più andrai, with another song once in a while for a little while (if you have seen the movie Amadeus, it is the piece that supposedly Salieri composed) ... I hope it will be a different one soon lol

And I agree with you about sounds, but I don't know, maybe for someone like Mozart every sound was music.

You probably know this one

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TNakOAoYxU[/youtube]

I think I'm primarily visual. I was very good in art when I was young but could only draw from pictures (2-D). I could never learn to draw from 3-D (real life), so I did not pursue it. I have extremely poor verbal memory and verbal skills. I'm better at writing than talking because writing is visual and I can look back to see what I just said. When I talk I get a bit confused, forgot what I said or tend to be repetitive. I can never remember people's names except ones that I know for a while and I find interesting. In university and school I was much better at multiple choice (recognition-visual) than essay-type questions (recall-verbal) because the former are more visual and require less verbal memory. However, if I wrote essays in science, I was good because I had more time to look back and find ideas that I agreed with and change it in using my thoughts/logic.

Visual/musical.

Go me.

I'm a logical/mathematical thinker but I'm not good at music at all. I do not have an ounce of creativity in me.

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Am primarily visual due to central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) but it's not as simple as that. There's a cluster of issues/other categories/associated conditions like: petit/absence/TLE/complex partial, etc., central auditory processing disorder (CAPD), ADHD Inattentive, prosopagnosia, vestibular (body balance) challenges, sports concussions, brain injuries, and so on. Words: paying attention, sustained attention, continuous concentration, memory, constructional apraxia, etc. - which can affect those categories too, it seems to me.

What about spatial thinking?

http://www.neurolearning.com/spatial.htm

People frequently confuse spatial thinking with visual. True spatial thinking is not visual thinking. For example: Draw me a picture of independence. Show me a picture of enlightenment. Tell me about what time looks like. Independence, enlightenment and time are ideas - ideas are an explanation of the relationship between things, either a placeholder for an explanation of how things work, or a summary of explanations around what things mean.

Since spatial thinking has to do with relationships, it comes from our lizard-brain ability to imagine a path between locations in our heads. This evolved into the primate brain being able to predict who was friends with who, or how many fruits person X will give you for a dead rat vs. person Y's offer. In modern humans, spatial thinking is our ability to dream, create, investigate and predict. I can use it to tell a story (verbal), draw a picture (visual), imagine a pattern (music), or predict economics (math). Spatial thinking is the core of human intuition.

My primary thinking is spatial.

How are these "specialized"? Doesn't everybody think verbally or visually, etc...?

If we stick to the 3 categories Temple Grandin mentioned, I would say spacial thinking is a mix of one of them and math, for example in the movie when they show what she sees in her mind while opening the fence, that looked to me like a mix of visual and math.

Or spacial thinking may not be considered a category by itself because it is assumed to be, at different degrees, part of all categories. I don't know, it would be an interesting question to ask her.

No thank you.

Temple Grandin has a problem with under-recognizing how many ways of thinking there are. There's no "none of the above" option.