I enjoyed this website (below) so wanted to pass it on.
Its all about right versus left brain dominance... basically we have two sides of the brain and they do different jobs. Almost all of us use both sides, but some of us will be more dominant in one than the other and some of us will have more integration between the two than other people will.
Till I was nine I struggled to understand language with meaning AT ALL and my receptive processing for meaning was about 10%, the effect was I was tested for deafness and also found unable to understand written words for meaning.
Even once I got 50% meaning from words I still couldn't follow instructions because 50% of it went unprocessed for meaning and the rest was tumbled, like the sequencing didn't hold.
I'm the kind of person who learns through doing, through physically having contact with a sequence or touching the objects used to symbolise parts of a story or explanation. If I want to understand how a mother bird feeds a baby bird I want to chew and spit the food to someone, seeing just ends up tumbled, but in doing I hold the sequence... body mapping is what I call it. I need to touch things as a sculptor might because without that the wholeness of the experience just flies away like confetti.
My use of objects or learning is strongly linked to the physical surroundings and movements used when learning them so when this changes the knowledge isn't transferred so I have to learn anew A LOT. I learn by pattern, theme, feel, not by interpretive meaning and I intuit/feel my way through things and the rules are 10,000 miles away.
I learned how to make lists but yes my lists have no sequence without a lot of trying, mistakes and help. I have 'to do' lists but they are pretty random but they do work to cross items off till they are done and without lists my life would become one big drifting process of a waking sleepwalker.
I type but have mostly no conscious awareness of what I think when I type. Without typing, my expression is art and music. Handwriting distracts me a lot as the movements are so individual for each letter not so much resource is left to actually get out whatever's brewing back there... I don't handwrite much.
My favorite fun is always through doing, moving, hands on and songs... but I'm so aware this world freaks out if you touch anything to explore it or its processes or sing in public (unless your being paid for it), and for them its always rules rules rules and one must have conscious awareness or intention... often it seems the outside world has no place for someone caught between feeling the world and adventuring through it in order to know it and hold that knowing.
I did the test in the site below. I knew I was very 'right brain'. We live in a 'left brain' world... far more people seem to be 'left brain' and those like me are considered to have 'learning difficulties' by their system (of course and they'd have them by mine too!).
I was asked what I thought the main different feature was between Autism and Asperger's. I think you'll maybe find in reading through the site on brain hemisphere specialisation that there are many Aspies who may be better at left brain stuff and many Auties who may be more right brain but not nearly recognised for the abilities they do have as much as they are recognised for the left-brain abilities they don't have. Whilst most people have a balance of both abilities, being extremely one side or the other clearly means the abilities of that other side are far less practiced. Processing incoming information in a non-Autie manner usually involves using a good balance of the two. So feel free to try the test yourself.