Re: Real-Life Weirdness
 

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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This hasn't always been obvious?

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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I not a very visual person at all, but the idea that people can be functional without any ability to visualize objects or people would never have occurred to me. I still think it strangely fascinating how specific aphasia can be, such that one can retain the ability to write but not read, for example.

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Rule 34, dude. There's an erotic book about a woman and a bear, not a magical talking bear, but a regular, run of the mill, circus type bear.

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All you need is the proper interpretation of this quote:

"The Delphi car 'took appropriate action', according to Absmeier."

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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
 

Looks more like a generic scammer.
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.