Can people with aphantasia have adhd ? Just a thought i had. I still am baffled it’s even possible for someone not to have a “minds eye” but science says its true!
Can people with aphantasia have adhd ? Just a thought i had. I still am baffled it’s even possible for someone not to have a “minds eye” but science says its true!
I’m don’t have aphantasia, but I’m pretty sure I’m worse than average at mental imagery (and far worse with faces).
Either way, seems easier to imagine not having a minds eye than to have photorealistic mental imagery. My inner-world isn’t visualization-focused.
Trying to visualize something with detail generally requires trying to back-solve for an image from what I know about it. Like, if I want to imagine a gamecube, I have a very vague cube-like structure image to start with, but I have to think about the ports and the side wings and handle and the expansion for GBA games individually and add them to that vague purple and white cube. While I know there are dot indicators for play 1-4, I can’t tell you if they’re above or below the ports since I never really physically interact with them, but I know where the eject button is and how its sorta dimpled since I directly interacted with that many of times. There’s no point to going through that effort of trying to make a mental image.