Temple Grandin: “Some visual thinkers, like me, are ‘object visualizers’—we see the world in photorealistic images. Many of us are graphic designers, artists, skilled tradespeople, architects, inventors, mechanical engineers. ‘Spatial visualizers’ see the world in patterns and abstractions. They are the music and math minds—the statisticians, computer coders, electrical engineers, and physicists. Being an object visualizer means I’m good with my hands, at fixing and making things. But I’m terrible in areas such as algebra, which rely entirely on abstraction and provide nothing to visualize.”