Language is useful. (Though it would be less so if people didn’t automatically assume being nonverbal made you completely stupid. Picture boards!) It doesn’t follow that we have to think exclusively in words. Language is not a very basic part of Amanda Baggs’s thought processes, for example.
Thinking without words is useful because it’s (sometimes) fast, and has different constraints.
Language is useful. (Though it would be less so if people didn’t automatically assume being nonverbal made you completely stupid. Picture boards!) It doesn’t follow that we have to think exclusively in words. Language is not a very basic part of Amanda Baggs’s thought processes, for example.
Thinking without words is useful because it’s (sometimes) fast, and has different constraints.