No images, no text, no voice. When I code, I simply sit in front of the computer and it happens. It's similar to tying knots or driving a car, except applied

No images, no text, no voice. When I code, I simply sit in front of the computer and it happens. It's similar to tying knots or driving a car, except applied to my entire life. Once people master tying their shoes they don't think "alright friend, let's have this rabbit run around the tree". They just do it and it happens. When you drive as an experienced driver, you do not think "red means stop, red means stop, look in the mirror, look at the road". You just automatically compute what is going around you. Simply apply that to everything and that's how my mind, and the mind of a lot of people, works. I once tried to learn how to speed read. One of the core concept is "do not vocalize the words, just think through them". At first this had me confused as to why people would actually focus for long enough to generate an internal noise for each sound. This sounded like a way to slow down your reading on purpose. Then I learned that some people have an automatic voice that reads everything and the effort is flipped, it's a conscious effort to quiet it while for me it's a conscious effort to generate it. In my eyes, since people are able to unlearn that, it's not impossible for you to empathize about it. It's simply hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes when the concepts are very alien to how you experience life. Take the aphantasic community as an example, at first many people "call bs" about the fact that other people could see images.