"Neuroscience researchers" but you don't post a source, just an essay on how invested you are in this being real. Keep huffing that Quanta magazine, buddy. MBTI testing is also horseshit. I didn't see it "debunked" on Hacker News and Reddit, those are the #1 aphantasia and ADHD havers in the entire world. It's hilarious you think something less rigorous than IQ testing is on the same level as PTSD
No, everyone can imagine an apple. This is stupid. Even this guy admitted he can remember things, he's just not satisfied with the quality. A cup of coffee would make him see an apple.
Aphantasia is not actually a real condition btw, the whole "imagine an apple" discourse is completely lacking in rigor. It's like the online ADHD discourse, or MENSA. It's a way for boring people to talk about themselves to each other. (Like most of Reddit and Wikipedia.)
This happens to me periodically and I seriously think it means we just need more potassium, less sleep disruption, and more time in nature to absorb green colors (soothing in memory, gives you good dreams) and exercise the eye muscles with long distance focus.
Psychology Today has done a number on you, what a frantically googling moron, the first study has N=15, it's entirely based on self-diagnosis and surveys. They want to come up with a neurological basis for it based off fifteen people self-reporting fuck off lmfao.
Oh wow she has a PHD??? We have to listen to her obviously. I hate pseuds and their credentialism hahahaha you're full of it
Can't wait to see the second one.
This is like when my sister decided she was a super taster and that cilantro tastes like soap.
I never said I was particularly impressed with the rigor of ALL NEUROSCIENTISTS, they are as bad as physicists involved with string theory. Unfalsifiable nonsense. This is the kind of shit I'm talking about when I trash the entire field of "smart science" that's been picked up by TPOT and Lesswrong and other pseuds.
Oh you want me to prove aphantasia isn't real lol, no wonder you have trouble with things like this where people play word games, you're completely devoid of logic. The onus is on you, and neuroscientists, to prove it exists.
What you did is go pull every paper you could possibly find which reinforces your identity.