... He used a cube as an example. He said that he can see the cube in his head but he can not turn it around or count the corners or the vertices in his head. Oddly, he can do arithmetic in his head really well...
No real answers here, just wanted to share that there are extremely intelligent people who cannot, for example, follow accurate/intuitive assembly instruction illustrations. These individuals seem to develop and utilize compensatory/supportive skills, such as color-coding or adding numbers to each side/surface of each component.
