Christine Jarvis

The trick to being a good speller when you cannot visualize is to be taught phonics rules plus the rule breakers.  There are always words that do not apply of course but it drastically lowers the amount of straight memorization.  

Hey, I just said to use songs too, lol.  I mentioned Schoolhouse Rock songs for kids in the 70's was a great example of doing this.  

I cannot visualize at all so when I was in college I used singing to memorize.  For example if you need to learn the periodic table I would take a popular melody or song and insert the elements.  By using the melody you memorize it differently.  You can then sing it back quietly (lol) when needed for a test.  Look up Schoolhouse Rock songs in youtube to find examples of this same process for kids in the 1970's.  

As a teenager I occasionally took psilocybin mushrooms and NEVER hallucinated. They just made me laugh alot. I never realized I had Aphantasia until I met a few genuses that were able to visualize and store items in their memory storage area. They could then go there and "see" what was stored there. Heck I can't see anything and never have. I am an artist and I have to view photographs that I take before I can paint a landscape. I can't imagine how the mountains or trees look like ahead of time. I do know when it looks correct on my canvas, but that's it. It almost seems weird to me that people have a minds eye.