#visual thinking

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Grasshopper (1987) by Peter Blegvad from Imagine, Observe, Remember

[gifs-of-puppets]

Sam and Friends (1955-1961)

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Saw a joke about rotating cubes in your mind, and it made me remember middle school standardized tests. One part of the math section was to show an unfolded cube, then you had to choose which side the shaded side became when you folded it into shape.

And I did not know at the time that I did not think visually. But I did know that I got a tension headache (that I now realize was a stress migraine) every year when that part of the test came up because it took me so much effort to picture it and figure it out.

It took many years after to actually realize I don't think visually and also, this is another way standardized testing can't actually prove what someone has learned vs. not learned.

Like, the thing is, if you say, "Can you picture a dress?" Sure. But it's like a dress you would draw super quick for pictionary. Very generalized dress. Folding cubes requires thinking in 3-D, and that hurts my brain to this day.

Anyway, if you struggled with the cube section on those tests, maybe you also don't think in visuals, and we got tricked by bullshit.

[snazzy-hats-and-adhd]

When I say I'm a visual thinker, I need you to back up a moment and ask if you are familiar with the phrase "can't hear myself think", because I just realized today that I suffer from "can't see my own thoughts".

Like, legitimately, sweeping up a bunch of debris on the floor made it easier for me to think and do things.

[rbtpracticeexamus]

🧠 Celebrating the Strengths in Autism 💙 Autism isn't just a diagnosis, it's a perspective. A powerful, detail-oriented, deeply honest way of seeing the world. Visual thinking, fact memory, pattern recognition, loyalty... these aren’t “quirks” they’re superpowers. Let’s stop framing difference as deficit. Let’s celebrate the brilliance. #AutismStrengths #NeurodivergentVoices #CelebrateNeurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #InclusionMatters

[my-autism-adhd-blog]

Visual Thinking

Have to adapt to Predominantly verbal communication culture in society

verbal processing communication culture requires effort

Convert verbal language into imagery to verbal understand communications

May struggle with long sequences of verbal information

May find it more difficult +o organise visual thoughts when under pressue

Need processing time to conceptualize visually what is being said verbally, then actively creating a verbal response

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Visual thinking has a component-are things that others miss

minds that are like oceans of images

Make rapid fire associations

Numbers and Algebra can be abstract

Word based thinking can be a second language to

Details jump forward - notice things that seem off kilter immediately on entering a space

can be late talkers

Deconstructing to learn

See Images In their eyes mind

Struggle with traditional teaching methods

Problem solvers

Photorealistic images-Cinematic-Short Films

Often doesn't require directions when traveling

May thrive in practical based activities

Look at the world from another persons point of view

society not created for Visual thinkers

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[thesagittarianmind]

[windudemon]

visual thinking / 16 types question for all

close your eyes, picture a very slowly spinning world map model. (let's say one spin takes 10 second.)

now tell me your type and how successful you were doing this? were you able to keep the "image" alive throughout? did it disappear and reappear because you lost focus? how high the image definition was?

as an entp, i can't even keep it alive more than a second, so things were very choppy and also very low definition for me.

when i really focus, and think no words, it makes things worse. when i keep telling myself (silently, in my head) "world map, world map, starts with the continent of america, and now the ocean, and now england shows up, and now europe, etc... those words give me snapshot pictures that appear and quickly disappear, so using this trick only i can simulate visual thinking"

i'm %100 verbal thinker.