It does support my theory that my aphantasia isn't something I was born with, though. Something is getting stored; I just can't access
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings
The more terrifying thing: I'm going to have to focus on this image for my next set of self-made exercises, conjure it again.
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings
It is, to say the least, not a happy memory. Or a comfortable one. It leaves me feeling reedy and fragile. So that's fun.
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I still find the concept that most people do this unconsciously, all the time, to be horrible. What an existence, locked in your head.
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings @AndriErlingsson
most people are somewhere on an in-between spectrum
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
my guess is for most people visualization is a conscious effort most of the time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
otherwise you wouldn't have to tell people "picture it"
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That's what I did figure, hence how I designed my exercises. Also explains why I remember better by writing it down instead
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Replying to @FreyjaErlings @AndriErlingsson
it's interesting bc when you get ppl saying they're aphantasic you get three responses
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
"OMG me too", "WTF how is that possible", and "Who cares isn't everyone like that"
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and the 3rd response is that middle of the spectrum, where they have the faculty but it's weak
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AndriErlingsson
like ppl who react to prosopagnosia with "Oh faces are always kind of tough to remember"
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It's natural for us to assume we all think roughly alike, which is why it's so shocking when an aphantastic learns otherwise
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