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BlueSerendipity8@programming.dev to Autism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days ago

Aphantasia and Autism: Understanding the Connection

www.autismparentingmagazine.com

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Aphantasia and Autism: Understanding the Connection

www.autismparentingmagazine.com

BlueSerendipity8@programming.dev to Autism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 26 days ago
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Discover how aphantasia and autism may intersect, exploring shared traits, cognitive differences, and the impact on imagination and memory.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28567975

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

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        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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          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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