Garrett Payne

This sounds like you’re trying to spin this into a feeling of superiority, just in the way you’ve worded things. Specifically your section of being more in the moment and the section dealing in fantasy. Without fantasy in some regard, progress would never be made. While not able to visually fantasize you specifically mention fantasies that for some reason you think other people would be having during a conversation. Unless you’ve developed some BioTech that allows you to experience someone else’s thought process, logically you make the association because you have done so yourself. You claim you could never do such a thing because of how your brain works, then how is it you could imagine that’s how others think? Aphantasia is neither a strength or weakness, it’s a state of function for our brain which is our sole way of experiencing the universe around us. 

The best way I’ve been able to overcome this is by finding as many illustrations and artist renditions on topics of the matter at hand. If I’m able to recall facts from the imagery, while not able to recall the imagery itself, it gives me some form of information to use. Sadly what works for some may not work for others, as we’re still discovering things about our brains as time is unfolding around us. Through effort you may discover a completely unique way of doing it that no other brain has thought of before.