Verbal, visual and pattern thinking

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Do you think those categories even apply to you? I'm pretty much equal for all of them, so it's not a useful concept for me. It's obviously useful for Temple Grandin. I think some people use it as a lazy shortcut.

I often hear people call themselves or their kids "visual thinkers" as a shortcut for having a different learning style than most people. One person who called herself a "visual thinker" actually had visual spatial problems.

I'm definitely a visual thinker; I see pictures in my head for everything, from my own thoughts to hearing other people speak. With idiomatic expressions, even when I know what they mean, (like, "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"), I still see an apple dropping out of a tree rather than anything that has to do with parents, children or genetics. I have grapheme-colour synaesthesia, so even my words and numbers are in colour. When counting or spelling, I see the numbers and words mapped out and coloured in my head; nothing that goes on in there, even music, is without an associated mental image.

I'm defiantly a verbal thinker. I'm not good at noticing patterns & I have a rare low vision disorder & my brain has problems processing things I do see visually; like I could look rite at something I can see well & not process that it's there. I think by talking to myself in my head.

I would estimate that I am:

15% Visual
45% Pattern
40% Verbal

Unfortunately I don't believe I have a predominate thinking style, thus I am not particularly good at anything.