[Oz-gifted] Literal language & visual thinkers

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> I've been seeing a counsellor recently with my son who is a gifted 
> visual thinker and she seems concerned about his tendency to be so 
> literal. To be honest, I'd stopped noticing this trait and had come to 
> accept it as part of a visual thinker's lot in life - now I'm just 
> wondering if this is a fair assumption.
>
> I know lots of you have visual thinkers in your families - have you 
> also found them to be very literal in the speech and understanding of 
> other's speech?
>
>

Yes. very. We have done a lot of work on innuendo and inference. Also 
body language. A lot of texts are quite confusing if you are very 
literal-esp math
Louise