How we think: Tempel Grandin is a well-known high-functioning autist with a strong skill for thinking visually--she says it is like a film running in her head. She has a great love for animals and has done important work in humane slaughterhouse design. She runs her "film" of animals walking into the slaughterhouse to see if she's done the design well. Me, I can scarcely create a good picture in my head of a dear family member. I am *incapable* of seeing a printed word without hearing it in my head, but I read music like a three-year-old trying to sound out C-A-T. If I have a point here, it is that modes of thought, and the relationship between thought process and language, are complex and not entirely understood. Some people can learn by hearing. Some people cannot learn without seeing. Some people learn better without language, but by seeing objects and images. So, yes, we're all different here. Mia