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8:37am May 29, 2014
Anonymous asked: i like your apology post!not bc i ever felt hurt by things you've said, but bc it was the first time i saw something in depth about how you think and i thought it was really cool :) im someone extremely logical: i think in terms of arguments, cause and effect, proof, and always words...i had always wondered what id be like to think without words, but i didnt know it was a real thing until i saw this blog! thank you so so much for sharing with me and educating me! anyway, have a great day! :)

There’s a lot of people out there who think without words, and mine is only one way to do it.  Just like there’s tons of different ways to think with words.  I sometimes wish we could collect up all the different ways people can describe their own thinking.  Autistic people often spend a lot of time describing how we think, because it often differs from the norm in some way (or we imagine it does, sometimes it doesn’t differ that far in obvious ways).  Temple Grandin talks about thinking in pictures, which is very much not how I think.

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  1. aethergeologist reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Yes! and so often all autistics are described as thinking in pictures, when there are so many different ways that people...
  2. slepaulica said: I sometimes think in words, and when I do I think in many different languages at once. when i don’t think in words, i think in shapes and textures and colours, and i always know what i mean but it’s hard to match the texture-colour-shapes up to words
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