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  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•People with aphantasia, how does it affect your book reading?English
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    4 days ago

    I really enjoy reading, but I can’t picture a scene, or what characters look like. It can be a bit confusing at times, but doesn’t usually take away from the enjoyment.

    As an example, my favourite sci fi author Randolph Lalonde (great independent author, buy his books 👍) had a scene in a recent book where some characters had a shootout in a warehouse that held several spaceships. The ships were all at least a few metres long, so the warehouse was huge. In my head, everything was centred on a small area around the characters, and I could sort of picture them being within a few feet of each other.

    I couldn’t picture any details, it was as if he had written that ‘the man stood near the woman, and pointed the gun towards the crates’, even though the scene was well written with good descriptions. My brain couldn’t translate the description into a layout in my head.

    I still really enjoyed the scene, but every now and then it was as if my brain realised that things should be further apart, or one character should be taller than another, for example.

  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoADHD@lemmy.world•Is it common to have trouble remembering important details?English
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    13 days ago

    This is what I’m like now. The memories are there, but I can’t deliberately recall them. My memory used to be amazing, and I’d be the one who could remember all the details of everything.

    Now, I struggle to remember anything without context. I can’t remember most of what I did this week, but if someone said that we went to the supermarket on Monday, for example, then I’d recall lots of random details, but not necessarily anything important. It can be very frustrating.

  • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoADHD@lemmy.world•How common is it to need to know the absolute inner workings of something in order to do it?English
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    14 days ago

    Can you trick yourself into doing it the other way?

    ‘GUI building blocks let me see the shape of the finished code. Once I know the shape, I can work backwards to finer detail.’

    ‘Making music with the simplified tools lets me get the tune out so I don’t forget it, then I can replace parts with the proper instruments and tools.’

    I’m still trying to get my head around coding, but I use the music trick to learn songs. I play them one note at a time on either bass or guitar to figure out the tune, then play them properly with chords or figure out the bass line once I know where the song’s going :)