Visual Thinker
"When I say I'm a visual thinker I don't mean just that I'm good at making architectural drawings and designs. I actually think in pictures. During my thinking process I have no words in my head at all."
In fact Temple Grandin often characterizes her mental processes in terms of a videotape library or a CD-ROM that she scans for specific images, which then get 'languaged' and narrativised in a second-order process.
"My mind is like a web browser. When I lecture, the language is mostly "downloaded" out of memory from files that are like tape recordings. I use slides or notes to trigger the opening of different files. I look at visual images on the "computer monitor" of my imagination, then the language part of me describes those images."