I just found out about Aphantasia and it explains a lot about the internt. Apparently there are a surprisingly large number of people that can't produce mental imagery...and are often unaware in adulthood that 'picture this' isn't a metaphor. There is a subreddit for people having their minds blown when they find out they have it a la ASMR several years ago. I'm not afflicted, but its the most interesting stuff I've read in awhile.
If neither you nor the teacher were aware of the syndrome, it seems like school could get pretty sadistic: you can't picture what the teacher's saying, they don't get why, or that it's even a phenomena and the only alternative is to read the book...which unless it has pictures, is even more sadistic.
The screening test for Aphantasia is pretty simple, but I haven't heard of teachers having their students take it. It seems like this should be as compulsory as diagnosing dyslexia, but I can't see that it's on the educational radar. It seems like teachers should be clued in to spotting kids with blackness upstairs. Is this discussed much amongst educators?
Submitted October 07, 2021 at 05:52PM by WhoEvenThinksThat https://ift.tt/3oIDA9I
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