Interesting... I am totally the opposite. I can multitask (which I try to avoid) and take in things while I do other things. For instance: My wife is autistic and sometimes think I do not listen or care but I usually listen, think of the reply coming up and maybe look at something at the same time. One of the few time I totally concentrate is when drawing, painting or reading. And when sitting in zazen I also keep a pretty good silence in my head and flip between hearing OR seeing the wall in front of me. As aphantasia goes, I'm totally 100% in seeing, hearing, smelling, tactile or any picturing in my mind.

"I tend to focus on one thing at a time, really grokking that thing, but failing to notice anything else." Yes, I operate that way. I am totally focused on one thing, which gets almost all my CPU. I don't multitask. When I am focused on something I don't see the world around me: I can be in a conversation without seeing the people. I don't see the landscape around me while driving, which is why I get lost even on familiar routes. Or I scrape obstacles which don't get onto my radar.

Interesting... I am totally the opposite. I can multitask (which I try to avoid) and take in things while I do other things. For instance: My wife is autistic and sometimes think I do not listen or care but I usually listen, think of the reply coming up and maybe look at something at the same time. One of the few time I totally concentrate is when drawing, painting or reading. And when sitting in zazen I also keep a pretty good silence in my head and flip between hearing OR seeing the wall in front of me. As aphantasia goes, I'm totally 100% in seeing, hearing, smelling, tactile or any picturing in my mind.

"I tend to focus on one thing at a time, really grokking that thing, but failing to notice anything else." Yes, I operate that way. I am totally focused on one thing, which gets almost all my CPU. I don't multitask. When I am focused on something I don't see the world around me: I can be in a conversation without seeing the people. I don't see the landscape around me while driving, which is why I get lost even on familiar routes. Or I scrape obstacles which don't get onto my radar.