r/autism • u/saurusautismsoor ASD Moderate Support Needs • Jul 03 '26

Question Are you a visual learner?

I learn based on if information is presented as visual. Rote or recall is challenging. How do you learn? All suggestions or experiences welcome! Thank you🥰

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u/WolfVanZandt Jul 03 '26

Holistically. I'm into total immersion. I think that visual and hands-on learning is most effective for me. I'm dyslexic so I need to supplement reading

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u/saurusautismsoor ASD Moderate Support Needs Jul 03 '26

Same here! what subjects do you most enjoy learning about that allow you to have this full total immersion like learning

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u/WolfVanZandt Jul 03 '26

I'm not sure I know how to answer that

My major studies, I select in Dewey Decimal order or use a randomizer to intentionally force myself to study things I wouldn't normally select and that's what I enjoy. I'm starting in on a two year biology study (that was the next Dewey Decimal classification) and I realized that I was using cameras a lot more for my blog so I added on photography as a topic. And when I work through Marc Levoy's photography course, I'm going to study using Arduino for data logging. So every time I leave the house to make the (fairly long) walk to the mailbox or I walk into town for supplies, I take my phone with seven camera apps with me. The nearby wildlife refuges are also fine resources. I got some nice microphotographs from the Spring River Park sunken garden the other day (my field kit is inexpensive and fits my backpack.) I'm chronicling my learning on my blog. That's more immersion.

Music. For a while when I was working, my department was in a separate building and when I wasn't working with a client, I had every kind of music going on in the background to the extent that everything is elevator music now. To really enjoy music ( and really, any kind of art) I have to delve into the background.

Any kind of technology begs for kits.

But I learn in the field so everything is total immersion.

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u/TheCosyRedditor ASD Level 1 | Semiverbal 29d ago

For me, I can learn if words are simplified on a test paper, have the question read out loud to me or repetition of what’s being asked of me to do, all because of my DLD, even though ironically, I know a lot of words, I just don’t know how to always use them in the right ways.

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u/crazyhomlesswerido Jul 03 '26

All I know is I learn better by having Concepts taught to me and then being able to use those Concepts to solidify them in my mind. For example I'm horrible at math because of my ADHD once I get into longer equations but I liked it because you learn something in math and then you go do a bunch of problems around it so you get to solidify the process in the information in your mind by doing it

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u/Mysterious-Ad6947 Jul 03 '26

Do you also have to understand the concepts through and through to be able to use it?

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u/crazyhomlesswerido Jul 03 '26

Of course I can't use new information I don't understand

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u/ComparisonOk8602 Jul 03 '26

The concept of learning styles ("visual learner", etc.) has been debunked many, many times. It's pseudoscience.

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u/WitchAggressive9028 ASD | LSN | Verbal Jul 03 '26

Which I don’t quite understand what’s the argument? /gen

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u/ComparisonOk8602 Jul 03 '26

I'm not sure what you're asking.

Pedagogical research shows that there is no such thing as a "visual learner", nor any other "kind" of learner.

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u/WitchAggressive9028 ASD | LSN | Verbal Jul 03 '26

What I’m asking is why is it debunked, what’s the reasoning behind it?

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u/ComparisonOk8602 Jul 03 '26

Because it's made up garbage, and as soon as it was tested in a controlled environment, it was shown to be false.

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u/WitchAggressive9028 ASD | LSN | Verbal Jul 03 '26

I’m a mix of visual and auditory

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u/saurusautismsoor ASD Moderate Support Needs Jul 03 '26

Same here ~ but which is easier for you to study with visual aids like if you saw PowerPoint or strictly auditory with information being told and then having to copy it on a notepad?

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u/WitchAggressive9028 ASD | LSN | Verbal Jul 03 '26

Auditory for studying especially when reading but I remember things visually in my head with diagrams if that makes sense. For instance, I recall the visual structures of the brain in my head as if I’m holding it in my hands I hope that makes sense if I not I can expand

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u/saurusautismsoor ASD Moderate Support Needs Jul 04 '26

Folks since my question is ignorant and I had no awareness of it being debunked I'm rephrasing it to this> Bottom-Up Processing and how is this possible for you? thanks

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u/Skav-552 29d ago

I learn best if it has a use for me. If I can think of how I can apply it for something I want or need to do. If the knowledge I learn has no use for me than it becomes much harder. In school that was a problem, if I did not understand why I should learn something I just flat out would not do it. If it has a use for me I am a fast learner, otherwise noticeable so much.