Reg Forsaith

When I was younger, it was pretty easy and I don't know how I did it.Not "savant level cube root of poly digit stuff, but simple arythmetic was no big deal.Now I'm older, I often resort to breaking things into tens, hundreds etc, or nearby multiplesFerinstance:8, 2,3,7,6,4 added up get broken into the three pairs that make up tens,and there's three of 'em, so thirty.25% discount off of $47 is well nearly $48, so a bit less than $12. If I then need to get picky, well its $1 less and that's $0.25 so$11.75 discountThat sort of thing.These days, I'm more likely to just reach for the phone and select the calculator app.Its never seemed to be a visual thing, just a practice thing.Like I can still recognise integral calculus, and I understand the principle of it relating to an area under a curve, but couldn't solve one to save my life.

Hmmm... Interesting.I'm a terrible artistic art, but quite good at technical drawing - blue-print type stuff, both freehand, with tools or software. I have no trouble thinking up a doodad and then sketching out what I'm thinking of with the three dimensions taken care of.By that I mean from in front, one side and above.the same is tru of drawing something that I've seen from memory.i also build models and modify them, with and without instructions, but I suck at sculpting.

I was worried about my memory well before I found out I was Aphantasiac.I'd put my name down for a university study to get trhings checked out.The waiting list was long.I then had my epiphany and realised that I wasn't visualising.I wondereded if this was connected too.I recently got the call and spent 4 gruelling sessions getting tested.Some things were easy, some nigh on impossible.I got the results back on Tuesday and found to my surprise that I'm rather bright ( top 98percentile)and top 99.5 percentile for a couple of task types) and my memory was above average, but not as good ( 77percentile and 82 percentile) for the two types of memory tested.So I don't have early onset dementia, but the things that worried my might be explained, I was told, by trauma, stress, andopiod pain killers.So no link between lost time, missing memories and Aphantasia for me.Maybe you could contact your local universities and see if they can check you out too?Might give you a deeper insight.