Alex’s Reviews > Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions > Status Update

Visual thinking is not about seeing per se... Visual thinking refers to the way the mind works. To the way we perceive.

Hyper-systemizers struggle with even the simplest of everyday social tasks, like making and keeping relationships, yet they can easily spot patterns in nature or via experimenting that others simply miss.

We even call commentators talking heads. The dominant culture favors verbal people. Theirs is a language-filled world.

I stood on an overhead catwalk and looked at all the complicated conveyors and exclaimed to no one, We don't make it anymore. This is the price we have paid for removing most hands-on classes from our schools, such as shop, welding, drafting, and auto mechanics. The kids who should have grown up to invent these equipment...are shunted into special education.