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This topic has fascinated me ever since I found out that most other people don't think the way I do. I mean, their thought process. I was watching a TV show once and one of the characters was thinking, and you can hear the dialogue inside her head, and I remember saying out loud, "I hate when they do that on TV. No one thinks in words like that!" and the other people in the room were like, "Um, I do..." I was so shocked! I've always thought in pictures and feelings and colors. The only time there are words in my head is when I'm planning out something I need to say, or right now as I'm writing this post, or when I'm reflecting back on a conversation I had with someone. Otherwise my thought process is pictures. When people talk to me, certain words bring up a picture in my mind of something associated with that word. Like if they say "dog", my brain flips through snapshots of almost every dog I've ever known. Certain words I just see as a picture of that word, sort of floating in my mind's eye (maybe that's why I'm a good speller). The same with numbers. I also assign certain colors to certain words or ideas.
I asked a writer once if she thought in this way, because she's a visual writer, and she said she thinks in both words and pictures. She told me to read a book called "Thinking in Pictures". I forgot the name of the author, but it's by a high-functioning autistic woman, and there's a whole section about her normal thought process, and it sounded so much like the way I think, except for some of the challenges it caused with language because of her autism.
But anyway, I wonder if the epilepsy has anything to do with it. Just because my brain may be wired differently.
I asked this question to a friend of mine who is very musically and artistically talented, and he said that sometimes he thinks in pictures, sometimes he thinks in rhythms, and sometimes if he's really angry or upset, there are no words in his mind and he can't even speak.
What is YOUR thought process like?
I asked a writer once if she thought in this way, because she's a visual writer, and she said she thinks in both words and pictures. She told me to read a book called "Thinking in Pictures". I forgot the name of the author, but it's by a high-functioning autistic woman, and there's a whole section about her normal thought process, and it sounded so much like the way I think, except for some of the challenges it caused with language because of her autism.
But anyway, I wonder if the epilepsy has anything to do with it. Just because my brain may be wired differently.
I asked this question to a friend of mine who is very musically and artistically talented, and he said that sometimes he thinks in pictures, sometimes he thinks in rhythms, and sometimes if he's really angry or upset, there are no words in his mind and he can't even speak.
What is YOUR thought process like?
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