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
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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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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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Replying to @frabcus
Also I definitely count it as 'fortunate' - my family has always been interested in how people think because my parents were both teachers, so were used to needing to empathise with differences in how people learn.

May 21, 2021 ยท 8:11 AM UTC