Anyone else have this issues? words erasing images

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this is mostly a question to those who were non verbal or had a speech delay.

when I was little I used to think mostly in pictures and video and sounds i sometimes would also haveverbal thoughts but they were more like audeo recordings of things people said 9think like watching tv) i had a moderate speech delay but recieved a lot of intesive early intervention, speech aand occupational therapy well recntly i realied that i am think more in words and it seems that my vissual thinking and visual thinking skills are fading away. this is freaking me out! I hate it. I want it to stop. the more I use words and talkthe worse it seems to get. it has even started to impair my ablility to navigate my enviorment and I seem to be loosing the visual compnent to many of my memories. I told my therapist and she told me it is a good thing
the way I think is changing and it is causing me

headaces

anxiety

getting lost

memory damage

understanding my enviormentissues

meltdowns

panic attacks

frustration

confusion

and this is a GOOD thing???????????

im thinking more in words but i still struggle to comunicate things verbly like where something is. it isnt making it any easier to describe my experiences
and it is actually making my life harder in some ways


has anyone else experienced this? am I alone?

Hi, dogGeek. The dog pictured is a very handsome individual. I am NT, but I have a thought about the process you're going through.

Purely visual thinking occurs in the right brain hemisphere. Speech takes place in the left brain hemisphere.

There are certain things which, it seems, cannot be done simultaneously. When I am looking at something and drawing it, I can hear if someone is talking to me, but cannot reply in words until I stop drawing. I simply cannot talk and draw. Many, if not all, artists experience this same phenomenon.

Perhaps as you push ahead verbally, you are spending less time wholly thinking in the right hemisphere; perceiving it as a loss of memories which are contained in the right brain.

The article linked below explain the capabilities of 2 hemispheres.
http://brainmind.com/RightBrainAwareness.html

This article contains an exercise which triggers a switch from left to right brain thinking. (At the bottom of the article.)
http://painting.about.com/od/rightleftb ... _Brain.htm

I had speech delay, but after I learned speaking, I didn't have this problem of words replacing pictures in my head. Words were a separate layer above the pictures, but the pictures are still basis of my thinking, and I have to translate from pictures to words to communicate. Also, I have no problem talking while drawing. The two actitivies don't interfere with each other for me.

I agree it is not a good thing, I don't know why your therapist would would tell you that, But I don't see how it is possible to overwrite your visual memories with words. Those memories must be in there somewhere. Maybe your anxiety is making it seem worse than it is.