How do you "experience" language?

[Koowie]

Aspies tend to be visually based, right? (I'm sure there are exceptions)
How many of y'all out there "see" language- for instance, interpret languages and/or words as having colors and/or shape?
If not, how do you perceptive language? What comes to mind when you think of a noun or English?
If you speak more than one language, do you find that a sort of inner "colored screen" goes up, like a mental image of blue will turn into orange/red when you switch from English to Spanish?
Just curious to see all the different ways of processing this sort of thing, I'm sure there are quite a few!

 

[tree]

No, I have colors for numerical digits.

Language feels more like shapes/designs to me.

 

[WittyAspie]

I see words in my mind. When I learned French I had a really difficult time understanding spoken words that I couldn't spell. Until I saw the word written down I had a lot of trouble hearing it correctly. Right now I am taking ASL, which so far seems to fit perfectly with my visual preference for learning.

 

[the_tortoise]

I see the words like print in my mind and then I try to translate the words into the thing they represent (so I see the thing in my mind as an image or a spatial map -- or feel or hear it, or sometimes briefly taste or smell it in an echo-ish/remembering way.....if none of these things happens then I don't understand and the words remain just words, devoid of meaning).

 

[toothless]

i am not within your criteria [aspie,im LFA] but i am extremely visually minded and it takes a bit of time to process what im thinking/seeing into language and to process what people are saying into visual representations.
i dont see written style language,i hear it but i struggle to process what i hear i dont take in information that way very well.

i tend to use a lot of easy read/pictorial based material to help me understand things better.

 

[Bolletje]

I don't really visualize language. I have a bit of a brain-boner for languages though.
Language is my plaything, I love coming up with new words or using words in unusual combinations, creating elaborate wordplay. Words by themselves sometimes conjure up images though, involuntarily.

 

[Diagnosed2015]

What you are describing is called Synesthesia. For instance, when I was a proofreader and editor, I saw misspelled words "hovering" over the page, in dark black and bold. (See attached example)

When I listen to music, I "see" music notes. I can see a person's aura (color) depending on how they are feeling and my daughter (who also has it) can "smell" white paint. We used to tease her about it as a child, until I figured out what was going on.

Also, if someone describes an injury, I can "feel" a sensation go all the way up from the back of my knees to my hips, so I often have a physical "expression" of what that feels like (similar to knees buckling).

A baby's laughter creates warm hearts (I can see) and tingles I can feel in my toes.

Here's an online test: The Synesthesia Battery

I'm using an example I found on the Internet, so it's not "exact," but the way the word is "bold," is how I proofread. Editing requires reading the copy and changing as you go, but "proofreading" (the first step) was easy; I didn't even have to concentrate because the words were just there.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

I get some videos in my mind for words. None I can really put into words. If I was good as making pictures then I might be able to interpret them that way.

 

[fuðflogi]

Aspies tend to be visually based, right? (I'm sure there are exceptions)
How many of y'all out there "see" language- for instance, interpret languages and/or words as having colors and/or shape?
If not, how do you perceptive language? What comes to mind when you think of a noun or English?
If you speak more than one language, do you find that a sort of inner "colored screen" goes up, like a mental image of blue will turn into orange/red when you switch from English to Spanish?
Just curious to see all the different ways of processing this sort of thing, I'm sure there are quite a few!

In some cases I process things like the color pink as a loud high pitched sound and yellow has a mid range fussy hum.

 

[fuðflogi]

Personally I say pictures but that isn't quite it, like impressions I translate into pictures and/ or something like words but not like on a page of text.

 

[fuðflogi]

And I always see the word representation of a number as having the numeric representation in place of the first letter. 5ive or 7even, like that.And I have dyscalculia.