I will have to show you the Temple Grandin movie to give you the best visual/spatial language definition. Instead of thinking in words, some parts of people's brains think in pictures. Some people's brains ONLY think in pictures.
Verbal talking is out-loud vocal type words that I hear as voices in my head, usually my voice, but not always. And printed language spans the gap between thinking in words and thinking in pictures. Have you seen the BBC Sherlock? He thinks in type a lot. I don't think the show's creators realized how autistic-looking they made that character.
How do you experience your emotions? Do you feel them in your body, or just as moods that influence your thoughts? Because I feel them both ways. Sadness feels heavy and chest-constricting but in my thoughts it feels like my thoughts are actually quieter and muffled, joy feels tingly and my skin is all effervescent like a shaken soda while inside my head joy is like spiky thoughts that jump around and get intermittently louder and jangly.
Proportions ... I don't know if I can words this one, but you've read Dune, right? You know the quisatz haderach sense of the future? I have one of those, too, and it senses probability and the proportions that those probabilities come in as sort of like ... weight? a sense of being pulled?
And there are parts of me that may not have a language at all. It has been almost twenty years since the last time I let that part of my head out of its box. I am afraid of it more than a little. All that I remember of being inside that headspace is that details that were pertinent to attack or avoid would become sharper and loom larger in my attention, so possibly some form of visual thinking?
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Date: 2015-09-09 12:27 am (UTC)Verbal talking is out-loud vocal type words that I hear as voices in my head, usually my voice, but not always. And printed language spans the gap between thinking in words and thinking in pictures. Have you seen the BBC Sherlock? He thinks in type a lot. I don't think the show's creators realized how autistic-looking they made that character.
How do you experience your emotions? Do you feel them in your body, or just as moods that influence your thoughts? Because I feel them both ways. Sadness feels heavy and chest-constricting but in my thoughts it feels like my thoughts are actually quieter and muffled, joy feels tingly and my skin is all effervescent like a shaken soda while inside my head joy is like spiky thoughts that jump around and get intermittently louder and jangly.
Proportions ... I don't know if I can words this one, but you've read Dune, right? You know the quisatz haderach sense of the future? I have one of those, too, and it senses probability and the proportions that those probabilities come in as sort of like ... weight? a sense of being pulled?
And there are parts of me that may not have a language at all. It has been almost twenty years since the last time I let that part of my head out of its box. I am afraid of it more than a little. All that I remember of being inside that headspace is that details that were pertinent to attack or avoid would become sharper and loom larger in my attention, so possibly some form of visual thinking?