Does aphantasia affect the way we experience mental disorders?
2 min readByRubber Ducky
So this just popped into my mind but do you think that aphantasia can affect disorders, for example how someone experiences ADHD or Autism? I have suspected or about a year now that I have a form of ADHD but haven't done anything about it as I can't fully relate to the whole being distracted by a daydream type thing. I've been suspected of having autism but I don't feel it fits but having inattentive ADHD would make sense and clear up many issues that I've struggled with in the past but I just can't get as distracted by things in my mind as, well, there's almost nothing distracting in my mind; no visual distractions, no physical distractions, no sensory imaginations there to distract me (except sound, I'm almost fully aphantasic except sound). I can still get distracted by a crow outside the window or just find it more compelling to look outside the window and be lost in my own thoughts rather than listen to a teacher drone on about a topic I find dis-interesting or I have to force myself to read something over and over again just so I can comprehend it as my mind just doesn't want to focus (which ends up not working anyway but I found a way around it thankfully). So yeah that's my question; Does aphantasia affect the way we experience disorders?