06-24-2015, 01:25 AM | #971 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
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06-24-2015, 05:17 PM | #972 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
Here's a new one for the Disadvantage list, along with Innumerate, Illiterate, and Non-Iconographic: aphantasia, the inability to picture things in one's mind. Sufferers can react to images just fine -- they can recognize faces, for example, and identify colors. They just can't picture anything; brain scans show certain regions lack activity during attempts at visualization exercises.
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06-28-2015, 01:24 PM | #973 |
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06-29-2015, 08:22 AM | #974 | |
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There are lots of people who obviously have vastly more mental visualization ability that I do (for example all the ones that say their dreams are mostly visual, or that see pictures of things they are reading). And when you have a range, that some people have zero surely isn't unexpected.
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06-29-2015, 11:25 AM | #975 |
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06-29-2015, 11:50 AM | #976 | |
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06-29-2015, 11:51 AM | #977 | |
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06-29-2015, 01:28 PM | #978 | |
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"The Delphi car 'took appropriate action', according to Absmeier." |
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07-03-2015, 01:11 AM | #979 |
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07-03-2015, 01:28 AM | #980 | |
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I know a compulsive liar. She confessed to killing her cousin's baby when it was actually the cousin. Fortunately, even the police didn't believe her. She tells a lie often enough that eventually at least one person believes it; her.
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