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Aphantasia and Autism: Understanding the Connection (www.autismparentingmagazine.com)

submitted 1 year ago by BlueSerendipity8@programming.dev to c/autism@lemmy.world

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[–] noctivius@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I can imagine all kind of pictures in my head, but the thing for me that i cant do it for more than a second or so. Does such issue have a name?

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[–] BlueSerendipity8@programming.dev [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

Imagination is a spectrum as far as I know only the two ends have a name.

Vviq is often used to rate visual imagination : https://davidfmarks.net/vividness-of-visual-imagery-questionnaire-2/

Aphantasia can affect other sensory modalities as well but I'm not aware of any methods to measure

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[–] BlueSerendipity8@programming.dev [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Or maybe hypophantasia : https://aphantasia.com/topic/hypophantasia/

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[–] noctivius@lemm.ee 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

did you make test from first link? are you able to produce image and for how long can you keep the image in your mind? i can do it quite well, i can also change styles, environment, colors, details etc but i struggle to keep same image stable, feels like its sliding away and mixing up with something else

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[–] BlueSerendipity8@programming.dev [S] 1 point 1 year ago

Honestly I don't remember, I may have used this one: https://aphantasia.com/study/vviq/ I didn't gave it because I don't know if you need to submit it with PII or not.

On my side I am not able to to conjure any mental sense, no taste, no voice (no innerspeech as well), no pictures, ...

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