First aphantasia blog post: On me discovering that most other people literally (not metaphorically) have a mind's eye, and that how it works and its qualities vary hugely between people. flourish.org/2021/05/blind-sโ€ฆ

Blind-sided : Francis Irving

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Replying to @frabcus
I'm fortunate that I've known there are strong differences all my life. My mother is strongly prophantasic and my aphantasic lived experience always used to baffle her. She finally 'got it' when I could not describe the house I had just bought without walking around it.

May 16, 2021 ยท 8:18 AM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone
Yes! Fortunate/skillful in considering the *experience* of thinking, when our whole society only conisders the *outputs* (skills, personality, etc. etc.). The list mental power I haven't come across before, and would like to ask you in detail about it some time, if you're in!
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I wonder if I'd think of it as a mental power - I guess it's why I often find thinking about code easy, it's just lists of instructions. What I find very hard is persuading myself to plan diagrams into design documents etc. because they're of basically zero use to me.