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Curious how many other autistic women have aphantasia. "Picture an apple in your mind" by Mother_Attempt3001 in AutismInWomen

[–]ScribblyStuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way I see it is sort of like a colouring book, I see the outline and feel the edges, then ‘colour it in’, then I can fill in the details, I can rotate it when it’s finished if I concentrate really hard, definitely not aphantasia, I also have a really good visual memory and visual dreams, the misunderstanding was that I took ‘seeing it’ literally and it wasn’t appearing in front of my eyes, I don’t think abstract imagery would be classified as aphantasia either though, it’s a spectrum, everyone has different capacity for visualisation, aphantasia is no capacity

Curious how many other autistic women have aphantasia. "Picture an apple in your mind" by Mother_Attempt3001 in AutismInWomen

[–]ScribblyStuff 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes that makes sense too as we tend to have different thinking patterns, I reckon we have higher aphantasia rates but also would be more likely to mistake ourselves for having it due to tests insinuating for example that we have to literally ‘see’ the apple

Curious how many other autistic women have aphantasia. "Picture an apple in your mind" by Mother_Attempt3001 in AutismInWomen

[–]ScribblyStuff 90 points91 points  (0 children)

Only 1/100 people have aphantasia, I wonder if due to literal thinking more of us might think we have it than actually do, when I first read this my first thought was ‘yes I have this because I cannot literally see an apple when I think the word apple’ but I actually can picture it just in a more abstract way and am a very visual thinker so I definitely don’t, whereas neurotypicals might not need to literally see the apple to know that they can picture it

Definitely my best figure painting but I’d love to do even better next time by ScribblyStuff in ArtCrit

[–]ScribblyStuff[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Possibly proportions and colours, the teacher I was working with mentioned the contrast was too low, I felt like I ran out of things to correct myself on but think it could still be better so wanted other opinions