THINKING IN PICTURES: Autism and Visual Thought

THINKING IN PICTURES: Autism and Visual Thought: "There is then a subcategory of jokes that can only be told to close friends. When I was a teenager I was called 'tape recorder' because I used scripted lines. As I gained experience, my conversation became less scripted because I could combine new information in new ways. To help understand the autistic brain I recommend that teachers and parents should play with an Internet search engine such as Google for images. It will give people who are more verbal thinkers an understanding into how visual associative thinking works. People with music and math minds have a search engine that finds associations between patterns and numbers."

This is so very true. Dr. Temple Grandin tells something that is so real, as my own experiences show. We think with pictures. In my mind, I still have an image of a poem printed on my school wall. But, though I remember that image, I don’t remember what the poem was about.


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