Comments on: I can see you, but I can never reach you http://starshapedpeg.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/i-can-see-you-but-i-can-never-reach-you/ A star-shaped space in a world of round holes Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:53:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Curious Bunny http://starshapedpeg.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/i-can-see-you-but-i-can-never-reach-you/#comment-630 Curious Bunny Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:15:31 +0000 http://starshapedpeg.wordpress.com/?p=282#comment-630 You do sound like my exact opposite! I think your complaint is a valid one - it's part (I think) of the tyranny of visual learners, because AFAIK we are in the majority, and sometimes people forget that you guys are out there too. Apologies, on behalf of my people, for what that's worth ;) You do sound like my exact opposite!

I think your complaint is a valid one – it’s part (I think) of the tyranny of visual learners, because AFAIK we are in the majority, and sometimes people forget that you guys are out there too. Apologies, on behalf of my people, for what that’s worth ;)

]]> By: Ros http://starshapedpeg.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/i-can-see-you-but-i-can-never-reach-you/#comment-629 Ros Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:36:30 +0000 http://starshapedpeg.wordpress.com/?p=282#comment-629 I think I am probably exactly the opposite of you. I remember words easily and precisely. I also find abstract ideas easy to grasp and, once grasped, almost impossible to forget. Visual details, on the other hand, only get remembered if I consciously thought about them and translated them into words. So I can remember thinking 'Oh look, she has three freckles on her left eyelid.' I am finding it very frustrating that all sorts of things these days are being communicated in pictures without words (safety instructions in airplanes are a particular bugbear) - I need words to understand things quickly and certainly; pictures, for me, take a long time to decode and even then I'm often not sure I've got it right. I think I am probably exactly the opposite of you. I remember words easily and precisely. I also find abstract ideas easy to grasp and, once grasped, almost impossible to forget. Visual details, on the other hand, only get remembered if I consciously thought about them and translated them into words. So I can remember thinking ‘Oh look, she has three freckles on her left eyelid.’

I am finding it very frustrating that all sorts of things these days are being communicated in pictures without words (safety instructions in airplanes are a particular bugbear) – I need words to understand things quickly and certainly; pictures, for me, take a long time to decode and even then I’m often not sure I’ve got it right.

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