Temple Gradin division of Visual and Math/Music AS?

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What do you think about that? She claims there are two types of AS intelligence. The Visual thinker and the Math/Music/Facts thinker.

Funny, I'm more verbal.

Maybe post more details about her dichotomy?

I'm very visual but also very, very musical... but I can't do maths to save myself. Guess I'm a bit of both then, huh?

I'm mainly maths and verbal, and "visual" but not "spatial".

I don't understand why they always lump "visual/spatial" together, as for me they are completely separate things.

I am definitely a visual thinker: e.g. I can read a map no problem, in fact I have to see a map in order to understand directions)

but I have very little spatial awareness: e.g I find dressmaking completely incomprehensible in that they seem to "just know" how a 2-D pattern will look when made into a dress on a 3-D person, and how to put in darts, tucks etc. It's all a complete foreign concept to me!

Exactly!!

My spatial awareness is awful. I'm the girl who constantly walks into furniture, doorframes (trying to get through), poles, puts glasses down on the edge of a table and wonders why it falls off, takes 10mins to cross a road because I've been nearly hit so many times....

Although I am STILL trying to get my idea around whether I am truly visual, etc... I doubt my level there is really that savant like. My math/music suffered for several things. I AM good with facts though. Of course, that USED to be better.

BTW I DO do spatial better than visual. With ME, visual is like I am looking almost level to a table, and there are photographs on the table. I SEE the photos! I can deal with them in a coarse manner, but the detail and CLEARLY seeing them is harder. That means I could maybe go to california and even tell you the signs/turns, landmarks, but may fail to be able to recall what is ON the signs. I can tell you if a book changed in appearance, but not writing.

I'm visual/spatial/musical and the opposite of maths that came into flesh haha.

It would be interesting to read more about the context this statement comes from.

I would've thought that visual/spatial would be good for maths and music. They say the top mathematicians in the world are hopeless at arithmetic.

Without seeing more background information, I can't say that there is a cast-iron distinction between the two. I have criteria of both - my mind is strongly visual and I can 'see' things in my head before I do them. But I also like facts, figures and statistics, so I seem to straddle both types of AS intelligence, without being brilliant at either.

I'm good with music and language. I think in images and sounds with narration, like a TV documentary. I'm pretty good at drawing, and I'm good with maps, but I'm not very good at geometry.

I'm not good at math at all, even though I find it interesting conceptually. It's like I understand the concepts, but I'm clumsy with actual math problems. It's the same with chemistry and physics.

So I have no idea which category I'd belong to.

The dichotomy seems a bit arbitrary, based on the information provided. If more information were provided, it might make more sense.