What type of aspie are you?

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What type of aspie are you? (for those with aspergers)

It could be interesting to see if there are actually many more visual thinkers than non-visual thinkers - and what kind of talents you guys have been blessed with.

Let's not forget our talents!

I am four kinds of non-visual thinker

Decide on which one you can identify with the most

#5. I like accounting. I don't believe that lawyer belongs with journalist or telemarketer. Maybe trial lawyers, but that's the minority. What most lawyers do is similar to accounting work.

Non-visual thinker 3 (Journalist, Copy editor, Telemarketing, Lawyer)

Visual thinker = other

I am not creative in an artistic sort of way but a very carful and precise visual spatial reasoning with the ability to visualize how I want something to look and apply every detail. I think I would be very good at 3D modeling, website design, photography, and digital art like vector art and visual effects. Anything where you have to set up a scene and make it perfect.

I wanted to be a non-visual thinker all my life and get into sciences like math or chemistry but my brain just does not work that way and I would be useless in these fields. You have to work with your strengths and not against them.

Alright, Mathematics/statistics, though it's not my main field. It's the one that I am best at. I was engaged in all four interests with equal intensity at different points in my life. Others were physics, accounting and music. Wait, caring for humans is up there? make that five...

I have to vote: Visual thinker other.

I disagree that mathematics is non-visual thinking. I can't even imagine how one could do mathematics without visualisation.

The choices don't make much sense to me. Why is animal trainer in visual, math/stats non visual, engineer non visual, physicist, etc etc etc

I am a computer programmer, photographer, musician and amature physicist to these categories seem like nonesense if I'm totally honest.

Non-visual thinker 1 (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer programming)

That would actually follow the trend found in the general population. Roughly 65% of the general population use visual thinking as their primary thinking style. The other thinking styles (knestetic, pattern, auditory) comprise the remaining 35%.

Being a visual thinker isn't an autistic thing; most people are primarily visual thinkers. The significant thing about thinking styles in persons with an ASD is that we are less ballanced. We may use our primary style more (or almost exclusively) and our other styles less (or not at all).

-j0sh

how does one know whether or not one is a visual thinker?

Non-visual thinker 3 (Journalist, Copy editor, Telemarketing, Lawyer)

Writing and language arts has always been my gift and asset.

I put music but I was really looking for a fiction writer tab. I've been a musician longer but have had more success as a writer.

I wish I knew. It would make choosing a field of study or a career path much easier. I wish there were some sort of aptitude test I could take to find out.

I picked the filing one, because I've always had a gift at finding incorrectly filed items. I can spot minor details without having to think about it. But I don't consider myself a visual thinker OR a non-visual thinker. I think I'm both a visual and a verbal thinker. I rely on words AND pictures equally. I agree, too, that engineering/physics/math all should be classified as extremely visual fields.