Visual mindedness

[Alex_C]

Apparently I have a very "male" brain in being a visual thinker, I can actually design rather complicated stuff without needing a pencil and paper, can take spoken directions and turn them into a sort of imaginary visual 3-D space etc.

Just curious I wonder how many of us FTMs are visual thinkers?

[Radar]

I make my living from it.

[petzjazz]

Not at all. Auditory learner, 105% - or as much as it's possible for a sighted human being to be, anyway. (which isn't much. Even the most auditory or kinesthetic learner is still heavily reliant on sight. All humans who have it are.)

[Silver]

I'm pretty visual but my thinking goes on paper. I draw.

Jazz is right that most humans are visually oriented.

SilverFang

[perfectisolation]

I'm very visual. Bad with words, not a speaker or listener at all.

One-track mind is also a male type of thinking, I can't count the times people have talked to me and I'm too focused on somethng else to pay attention to what they're saying.

The BBC "brain gender" test is good for finding that out. Apparently I can flip objects spatially very well (not to brag).

[Ender]

I'm visual.  I can't speak on it being a male thing or not (I've met some males who aren't visual thinkers), but... yeah, I think in pictures, not words.

I just found out today that a lot of people have a hard time looking at a set of blueprints (plans and elevations) and seeing the building in 3D--both interior and exterior.  I'm still kind of disappointed in myself that I was taken aback by that... I really do need to stop assuming that everything that comes naturally to me is equally easy for everybody else.

Radar, what do you do for a living?

[CodyJess]

I'm not a visual thinker in the slightest. I fail at flipping images, I can't do technical drawings, and I can't imagine squat off a set of blueprints. Give me words, however, and I'm all over the 'seeing it in my mind' part.

But really, I blame this on text-based roleplaying for most all of my (non-school) waking hours as a teenager. 

[Alex_C]

I used to draw floor plans of my house for fun as a little kid, I'm a very visual thinker and have aways been. But my verbal skills have been "Forced upward" since the Internet is text based, I've read a ton, and I used to bang out "ad copy" for hours a day when I had my business.

[Teknoir]

I understand diagrams and blueprints much better than words or speech. When I encounter a big slab of descriptive text, I have to draw or visualise a diagram to "get it sorted out in my head". Then, depending on complexity, I usually end up drawing all over it while I'm thinking.

I love diagrams so much, I go out of my way to buy flat pack furniture. It's fun!  The more complex the item, the better

I noticed in the first grade I could draw pictures of "clusters of blocks in random shapes" maintaining perspective very very easily. The concept wasn't something I had to think about at all.

However, you give me travel directions through an unknown area, and after the second one I just lose the plot completely. Literally - mental cache of 2, maybe 3 at best for verbal instructions. After that you're talking to a blank look.

I think I figured out why I LOVE Escher, and other people scream "ARGH! My eyes!" and run away  .

[Alex_C]

There are people who don't love Escher??

Flat pack furniture is fun to put together but the quality sucks, next time I need something like storage shelves etc I'll just get some wood and stuff and build 'em.

[Radar]

One-track mind is also a male type of thinking, I can't count the times people have talked to me and I'm too focused on something else to pay attention to what they're saying.

I'm the Poster Boy for that.
Post Merge: October 01, 2009, 07:55:03 AM

Radar, what do you do for a living?

Graphic design with some web & product design.
Post Merge: October 01, 2009, 08:58:16 AM

I think I figured out why I LOVE Escher, and other people scream "ARGH! My eyes!" and run away  .

He's one of my favourite artists! I'm looking at my Escher calendar right now.

[Miniar]

I'm very fixated. One Track Mind on each subject that comes to mind for up to two months at a time.
I can spend hours, every day, for months, just "studying" a concept.

I am not a visual thinker per say however.
I think in abstract "concepts" not words and not images.
I do have excellent spatial recognition however and I recognize "line of sight" type stuff even better than my cis-male hubby.

[Myself]

Did you notice it changing with testosterone?

I used to be really, really, REALLY good at rotating things in my head, 3D shapes, assembling shapes from a picture.

About a year after anti-androgens I went to do this kind of a test again at a psychologist, I failed TERRIBLY!
Well not terribly terribly, instead of getting perfect score I got more like average or a bit more.. but you feel the difference when it is 20/20 and then 15/20..

Tried to do those kind of tests at a site I did a quiz once and saw I can't get it perfect anymore.

Any changes with testosterone?