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-sโฆ
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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.
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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.
May 21, 2021 ยท 7:55 AM UTC