Comment by fellowniusmonk
5 hours ago
Yes 100%.
There is no undercurrent or symbolism, just read the email as written please.
I became aphantasic at ~15 and spent years after interfacing with non tech people over the phone and email.
In English it's so damn hard to be precise compared to languages like Portuguese.
Also, LLMs blather so fucking much context is impossible to track wtf they are even writing about.
* Fast screenshotting and arrows/drawijg should be first class on all OSes.
I’m curious about your statement that you “became” aphantasic. Any specific triggering event, or how did you realize this?
AFAIK aphantasia hasn’t been super widely known about until the last decade or two (obv I have no idea how old you are now)
I learned about it in high school, and that was 80s/90s but not by name per se. I took the ASVAB and there were questions like "fold a piece of paper in half twice, punch holes in a pattern, and then pick which image would be the result when the paper is unfolded" that I thought were ridiculously easy. I was told that they were difficult for people that cannot form mental images and these help test that ability.
I've never heard of becoming aphantasic, how did that happen?