• kablez@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    When I used to have to go to church as a kid, I’d imagine I was starting a new save file of Zelda Ocarina of Time. By the time mass was over I’d usually be up to one of the first rooms in the Great Deku Tree, in my head. It was only decades later I learned I was also autistic, but that’s a story for another day!

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    5 months ago

    Is the mind cow merely rotating in air, or must I imagine myself picking it up and rotating it physically? If I’m imagining physically rotating the cow, am I imagining exertion, or should I be imagining that I have super human strength?

    In what plane should I rotate it?

    Is the cow in a field or in a barn? Or is it in an empty void?

    If I’m physically rotating the cow, how am I dressed? Am I wearing my normal attire, or am I dressed like a dairy farmer? How does a dairy farmer dress? Is the cow wearing any clothing?

    Can I choose what season I imagine the cow rotating in, or must it be the current season?

    I have so many questions and now I’m even more bored than I was before!

  • chattre@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    as an aphantasiac I will literally describe the worst possible scene and you will be forced to picture it

    and I will win

    :3

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      5 months ago

      Yeah i’m like 80% aphantasiac, I can picture maybe the last time I saw a cow I, could probably imagine something else in the static scene, I can’t even really make it turn it’s head.

      There’s no rotating it.

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            5 months ago

            My dreams aren’t visually detailed, but i’m not sure that’s necessarily unique. I also have trouble with faces, but I can remember really long selections of words and numbers.

            Oddly I can do a really good job drawing 2d and 3d things from reference art if they’re 1:1

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      5 months ago

      A condition with a prevalence rate of 0.8% is not worth thinking about, let alone considering in the context of a meme.

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        5 months ago

        While a prevalence of 0.8% may seem like a tiny amount but when applied to a large population it’s a significant number of people. Let’s say a city has a nice round 100,000 people, a small city by any measure. That’s 800 people, not such a small number anymore. The lives of those 800 people are worth thinking about. Granted in the context of a larger population but it’s still something.

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    5 months ago

    As someone with full auditory and visual Aphantasia. This is extremely fucked up and ableist. (I am honestly only half joking this is very ableist either way)

    I can’t rotate cows in my head. I can’t even hear cows in my head.

    The cops still can’t stop be tho.

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      5 months ago

      Lol if they had said that you can count your fingers then we’d have someone in here without arms saying how ableist the tweet was