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dman2316 t1_j62kk63 wrote

Reply to comment by 90madness_machine19 in It’s a good thing that we can only feel our inner organs when they’re in pain. by crookshanks_cat

Sheer probability says there has been. There's been dozens upon dozens upon dozens of billions of people that have been born over the course of our species history, so somewhere along the line at least one person has to have been born with that mutation at some point, probably more than one. There's even a good chance there's one alive now actually.

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Escuertol t1_j61z1iq wrote

Reply to comment by NaditzuKokoro in The voice in your head can't change volume, so you can't annoy mindreaders by yelling. by Neoslayer

For me, it works vastly differently from what the other guy wrote above. There is thought, I just don't hear my own voice "reading out loud" what I'm currently thinking, I just know that I'm thinking about it.

I've never had to memorize scripts for social interaction or anything like that, on the contrary, I'm a professor and I usually give my classes without much preparation, words just flow.

Aphantasia is a spectrum, so every experience will be different, some just don't see mental imagery, some don't have "mental smell", or hearing, or can't recreate physical sensations. I'm a total aphant so I don't have any of those, yet I still know what is red or how a truck sounds.

The best analogy I've seen is that of a PC that works perfectly fine, with its processor, its hard drive, graphics card and so on, it's just that the monitor is off.

Edit: I also lived until I was 25 without even knowing other people could do that in their minds. I still can't imagine how (pun intended)

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