Originally posted by dk3nnyWas that Jerry Newport by any chance? Anyway, here's an article on "being a spatial thinker", also written by an autistic person, which you might find interesting: http://www.autistics.org/library/spatial.html
I also saw a very interesting program there a good few months back about an autistic savant who was able to so amazing things, esp memory feats and mathamatics, a bit like "rainman" However this guy was also very articule and able to express how his thought worked..
You might also want to read up on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf
Originally posted by NordlysOK, the Sapir-Whorf wiki goes back to what dk3nny was saying. He/she should read that one. The first one was beyond my understanding. Pictures or illustrations would've helped, or being a whole lot smarter.
Was that Jerry Newport by any chance? Anyway, here's an article on "being a spatial thinker", also written by an autistic person, which you might find interesting: http://www.autistics.org/library/spatial.html
You might also want to read up on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir-Whorf
Originally posted by dk3nnyRegarding Japanese, I learned to speak it a few years ago. I do know some kanji but I do not use it in my mind when speaking. I speak more in the way the guy who was doing the advanced mathmatics keeps the symbols etc in his head. Mor like a blob with interrelated symbols and words. I imagine many people have their own way of doing it. Anyways, Most people...Japanese and Chinese learn their language long before they have a complete grasp of chinese charachters.
The same as the way the Japanese have an imbedded respect of others in their society, the idea of "saving face"..
I know i'm kinda jumping around a bit here but i'd love to hear from someone who learned (or speaks) Japanese or Chinese, a language that has images, symbols and ideas attached to words and how learning and using a language like that is different to a strictly phonetic langfuage like english.
p.s. Japanese is a phonetic language, with hirigana and katakana.
Originally posted by dk3nnypinker is a good writer.
Hmm, its kinda hard to think about how you think isn't it 🙂
I remember reading a book by Stephen Pinker about how the mind works and he used a term called Mentalese, basically its a concept of the way we think in a combination of words, images, sounds, smells etc.
I also saw a very interesting program there a good few months back about an autistic sava ...[text shortened]... e and i promised i'd turn up..
Looking forward to picking up on this later though.
Ciao,
