Molson Hart

Get complex the image goes dark for me but I get a spotlight. I can put the spotlight on images on parts of the images to see those parts clearly. I think this happens because non-autistic eidectics have a limit to our working memory, i.e. the number of numbers you can remember.

came across this tweet just now and got reminded of this discussionhttps://twitter.com/mykola/status/1113163216639623173 …

Hi! Yes! Aphantasia is super weird. I model e.g. shapes relationally - I know what a star is. I can see a brief, dim visual with effort - but I don’t need it. A star is two sets of five points, concentric, with one rotated by 72 degrees, joined by a single line. That’s enough.

Stars have 5 points within and 10 points total. You were right the first time. I don't know much about autism but from reading your long post and just looking at your behavior generally, you seem a lot more ocd than autistic.

Lol you’re right about the star points, my initial intuition was right and I somehow talked myself out of it. I’ve got some OCD issues, it’s commonly comorbid autism actually.

I'm way out of my area of expertise, but if I had to guess, symptoms of OCD and autism can present themselves similarly but the underlying mechanism is totally different. For example, an autistic spins a cube in his hand repeatedly because that's more fascinating than...

Other activities "neuronormal" tend to enjoy. An ocd might do the same thing, but because they're convinced that if they don't, it will bring them bad luck that will kill one of their loved ones.