People who themselves are not attracted to STEM trying to understand the minds of people who are strong in STEM. I am getting the idea that many people who are strong in STEM are not thinking in a verbal manner, but using a kind of visual mode of thinking, being able to create complex structures in their mind without having to rely on words. This modes of thinking are not based on 'if', 'and', and 'then' lines of verbal reasoning. (It has long been an opinion that thinking and reasoning cannot be done without language, which of course is not true.)
I can totally relate. The first thing I do when I enter into a new technical or mathy topic is to build the intuition for those concepts, which simply means finding a way to visualize them without words. Then it's much easier to think about them.
Nota Bene: Simon Baron-Cohen's science around autism is often not replicated elsewhere. He makes some theories around this specious science, like the extreme male brain theory (despite there being many autistic women) and the systemizing brain.
I know and it caused me to think about this whole article in terms of Sacha's art which is surely an extraordinary synthesis of systematic and emotional thinking in the field of comedy.
