I have both aphantasia and autism and i wanted to see how many autists also have it.

  • Eevoltic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Weirdly, I’m the opposite. It was quite the problem when I was a kid as I couldn’t concentrate on what was in front of me, because what I was seeing in my head felt more ‘real’. I had even conjured up my own mind video game that I would constantly play and expand the mechanics of. I think most of my childhood memories are daydreams.

    I still sometimes visualise doing things and then struggle to know if I actually did said thing or just did it in my mind, but this is mitigated as I keep good notes of my activities so I can fact check my memory whenever I need to.