@hideki don't forget, there are no real people on twitter: only bots, feds, and blue checkmarks
@balrog_booger @hideki there's quite a handful of artists who suffer aphantasia. Some of them even worked at Disney
>you have to talk to these people
>you have to work with these people
>you have to share the road with these people
Science experiments show that even dogs and cats get 3 or 4. I just can't understand how adult human beings can even function in life with such a severe mental impairment. Do they just stare at a wall and drool when they're not receiving constant outside stimulus?
Genetics? Upbringing? God just ran out of souls to fill all the bodies? I haven't a clue.
I hope maybe they think there is a difference between playing a movie behind their eye lids and their minds eye and they're just confused.
Some of them could well just be confused. A lot of people who claim to have no inner monologue and/or can't imagine something in their mind's eye also claim to be able to perfectly recall music, for example. I'm no expert on the human mind, but those seem linked to me.
Yeah, I don't really know how those people think but the inner monologue one I think is definitely true from a lot of accounts I've seen where people say they have no inner voice, just floating images and feelings.
Perhaps, indirectly. It's possible that those people could simply have such degenerated attention spans that they can't focus on any mental task for even a few seconds in order to properly "run the test".

Man, I can see different kinds of apples. Granny Smith, Pink Lady, those cheap ones that taste like wood…

Is this autism?

@hideki Still horrifies me that there are people in the world who are anything but a "1" on that chart
@hideki I have like a 7. Can make a field of apple trees, pick an apple, rotate and inspect it, twist the stem out and drop it on the ground, toss the apple at someone and see it explode, etc. Can't imagine going through life being unable to imagine. Well actually... heh, I CAN imagine that too. 😎
@hideki ye me too. can imagine different tactile sensations as well
@CatLord @hideki I've said this before but the only sense I can't imagine is smell. If I imagine a taste my mouth will probably start watering
@Arkana @hideki I can imagine smell but it's more difficult.

@hideki I see 3 at first thought, but I've realized it's because I'm colorblind and my brain has been programmed to think in terms of shape rather than in color.

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