What I meant was that perhaps for an autistic child, the kinesthetic, visual, and auditory all swamp him/her at once and become overwhelming in totality of the experience, and that perhaps they have to learn to make one sensory channel primary.
Kinesthetic thinking is about being primarily motivated by the emotion and the location of the body in space. If people in my family move the furniture, I trip over it because I don't *see* as I move through my house. I can move easily in total darkness in a familar environment. I'm just trying to explain this way of thinking. Body memories. Like I am good at (or used to be good at) gymnastics, basketball, and dancing, and many of my memories are tied to the physical feelings of emotion associated with those memories.
I'm not good at *seeing* things. My family often laughs when I say something like, "How long has that building been there?" and the answer is "Oh about three years, diane." Some of that may because I am legally blind without my glasses and thus have little peripheral vision.
Dunno, he seems to be mostly visual now. And he has good ears and can repeat a pretty complicated melody very well. But clumsy. :) Probably inherited my disposition. :)
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:23 am (UTC)I'm about 3/4 visual and 1/4 auditory. So i can't even imagine kinestetic thinking... I think I have next to nothing of it.
Overloaded - yeah, I see it all the time. But the rest of what you said is lost on me. :)
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:34 am (UTC)Kinesthetic thinking is about being primarily motivated by the emotion and the location of the body in space. If people in my family move the furniture, I trip over it because I don't *see* as I move through my house. I can move easily in total darkness in a familar environment. I'm just trying to explain this way of thinking. Body memories. Like I am good at (or used to be good at) gymnastics, basketball, and dancing, and many of my memories are tied to the physical feelings of emotion associated with those memories.
I'm not good at *seeing* things. My family often laughs when I say something like, "How long has that building been there?" and the answer is "Oh about three years, diane." Some of that may because I am legally blind without my glasses and thus have little peripheral vision.
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:37 am (UTC)Dunno, he seems to be mostly visual now. And he has good ears and can repeat a pretty complicated melody very well. But clumsy. :) Probably inherited my disposition. :)
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Date: 2006-02-18 06:41 am (UTC)Maybe your son is creating his heirachy of sensory modes of perceiving. Good for him.