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I'm probably aphastasic. Like others here, I struggle to picture things in my mind, and they are very sketchy even then. I love reading fiction, but I realize
by wccrawford 5y ago
I'm probably aphastasic. Like others here, I struggle to picture things in my mind, and they are very sketchy even then.
I love reading fiction, but I realized a long time ago that I consume books differently than other people. People around me would describe people in scenes in the book as if they'd seen them, and I've never experienced that. I consume the facts, but I don't visualize them.
I also often can't remember if I read a book or watched a movie when someone asks about something. To me, afterwards, they're largely the same thing. I remember what happened, but video or text makes no real difference.
And finally... I think I've got a fair helping of face blindness. I sometimes can't recognize people if they change some major part of themselves, like hairstyle/color or grow a beard. I remember at work, walking by someone's desk and asking myself, 'Who is sitting at X's desk?' Then like 10 steps later, I realized that X is sitting at her desk, she just had a wildly different hair style. That wasn't my first instance of it, but it's a fairly vivid one.
And for fun: When I remember that scene, the outline of the cubical is pretty clear, but what X looked like then is completely missing and so is all of the stuff in her cubicle. I remember what direction I was walking, but I get no visuals of the actual walk. I know she had things like a calendar and a computer, but I don't picture them at all. When I think about that calendar, I see the outline of it approximately where it was in relation to the cubical's outline, but that's it.