You say “apple” to me and I’m #1, glossy skin, insides, all that

And how in the hell does one navigate life, or enjoy a book, if they’re not a #1?! Reading a book is like watching a movie. I subconsciously assign actor’s faces to characters and watch as the book rolls on.

Yet #5’s are not handicapped in the slightest. They’re so “normal” that mankind is just now figuring out we’re far apart on this thing. Fucking weird.

EDIT: Showed this to my wife and she was somewhat mystified as to what I was asking. Pretty sure she’s a 5. I get frustrated as hell when I ask her to describe a thing and she’s clueless. “Did the radiator hose pop off, or is it torn and cracked?” “I don’t know!”

EDIT2: The first Star Wars book after the movie came out was Splinter in the Mind’s Eye. I feel like I got that title. What’s it mean to you?

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I subconsciously assign actor’s faces to characters and watch as the book rolls on.

    But aren’t you visualizing the assigned character’s face? I think we all have varying amounts of this depending on what it is. It sounds like you can visualize faces, but not spaces.

    Edit: I see you say further down that you have a difficult time with facial recognition.

    Everyone’s brain does such wildly different things.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      It sounds like you can visualize faces, but not spaces.

      Can’t visualize faces at all; I think you pulled that quote from a different post. ;)

      The thing to remember, though, is that… I didn’t even know this was something that I “couldn’t do” until it was pointed out to me that others can do it. I just assumed everyone else was being metaphorical when they said they “visualized something” in their head, or whatever. So whereas you hear it and think “Oh gosh, these people can’t do this very normal thing! That must be awful!”, to us, it’s more like we’ve just been living our lives as normal and then 30+ years in, we discover that most people have a superpower that we don’t have.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        But is it a superpower if the ability hadn’t been called out until the 21st century? That’s what kicks my ass. We can be so radically different, on what to me is a fundamental cognitive skill, yet it doesn’t make enough of a difference that the ancients didn’t figure it out three thousand years ago!

        • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Thoughts are a weird thing to describe. I bet it just never really occurred to anyone to discuss specifically what they see in their head when they think of a thing - everyone just assumed what they saw was the same thing everyone saw.

          It’s like the theory that the color you see as green might not be the same color I see as green - how do you actually determine that?