Happy Boxing Day! I'm over on Sako & The Moon podcast talking about the complications of being a writer with aphantasia (the inability to picture things in my head). Join Us!
#writer #aphantasia #hypophantasia
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109: Phantasia Photo Description: Panel 1: Purple gradient dawn sky with a green and brown tree and a big nest full of spoons between the branches. The nest belongs to Rye, a crow currently sitting in it. On a nearby branch is a screech owl named Nugget, a pelican named Deep Dish, and a barn owl named Cupcake. Rye begins, "I'M APHANTASIC. I CAN'T IMAGINE AN APPLE AT ALL." Next Nugget responds, "I'm hypophantasic. I can only picture a red blob." Above her is the large red blob she imagines. Panel 2: Deep Dish replies, "HYPERPHANTASIC HERE! I CAN IMAGINE THE APPLE SO WELL I CAN PRACTICALLY TASTE IT!" He imagines an apple so real it looks like a photo was taken of an actual apple by the Creator. Panel 3: Deep Dish chomps the realistic apple. The other birds are amused. Panel 4: Cupcake adds, "I um... Picture the computer?" She imagines the brand "Apple", a silver laptop. The other birds are amused by this also.
#Autistic #Autism #Neurodivergent #InvisibleDisability #aphantasia #hypophantasia #hyperphantasia
By the way, this condition is called #Hypophantasia, which is close to #Aphantasia (when you can't get a mental picture of an object at all). If you also have that kind of condition :
- You're not alone. 🤗
- This doesn't block you from becoming an artist. 🙃
An international estimate of the prevalence of differing visual imagery abilities www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... 0.9% #aphantasia, 3.3% #hypophantasia, 89.7% #typical imagery, 6.1% #hyperphantasia; mental imagery, #VVIQ
