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Anon is Illiterate (retrolemmy.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Actually, I wonder if people who have difficulty visualizing from words would struggle to, like, make their own pictures.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    as a reader and writer with aphantasia, it's literally never once mattered to me. i love a good fantasy and just don't consider visualizing an obligate part of the experience. though i could definitely understand how it might be helpful

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's great to hear. And for what it's worth while I can imagine simple images, I don't usually while I'm reading. I just sort of understand what's happening in a non-visual way.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    yeah exactly. i find it really interesting how some people just can't separate understanding a text from internally picturing it. it makes me wonder if there's some legitimate difference in information processing, or if people who can visualize tend to associate understanding with imagining even if they're actually unrelated

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    As someone who has never been a big book reader (though I read tech manuals and news articles), I finally figured out I probably have aphantasia. This finally connected a lot of dots for me.

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