Abstract thinking in Patterns

 The spatial visualiser sees in patterns and abstractions……..

When we fail to encourage the talents of people who think in different ways we lose much in society we must learn to adapt ways of teaching to include everyone. 

Autism used to be blamed on rigid mothers and it is now realised it is a cognitive condition……..we should stop using phrases like normal or autistic and it is perfectly normal to be different. 

Emotionally some of us have difficulty in relationships but no problem in spotting a pattern within nature. They see things other people simply miss. Our human capacity for verbal thinking and language is important too….language is thought to transform thought into consciousness and visual thinking gets erased somewhere along the line. 

The genes that make for a bigger brain are also connected to autism…….higher intelligence at the cost of less emotional skills. How often do we foolishly say things like Einstein was a genius but not so much a great family man. Can we be both probably but can we be a genius at both. Perhaps we have to make a choice rather than to try to be a perfect balanced human being good at most things in life rather than specialising in one.

If you do experiments to see who is a visual thinker and the test is made up by verbal thinkers then the results will be a little messed up.

Many people (Wordsworth) have a vivid minds eye and imagination and others have none at all. Images rather than words work best for visual thinkers.

Hyperphantasia shows a connection between hyper vividness and PTSD people such as soldiers or trauma victims who cannot stop replaying the trauma in their minds eye can be problematic. Flashbacks can feel real. So visual thinkers who suffer a trauma are more likely to experience PTSD. 

We must remember that not everything is a disorder its just our way of being, its who we are. A variation on a theme of human experience. 

Finding out if your on the spectrum starts first with what the parents do for a living….do other family members show signs of being on the spectrum…..maybe a family member who was a bit different. Embrace them they may be able to deliver to our world some wonderful things that more orderly minds could so easily miss. Embrace yourself and others who are different and make some amazing discoveries.

A problem solving mind that does not focus on the emotional problem preferring to find ways to resolve them without turning on the drama. . . . problem solving brings its advantage. X