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Persona muy sensible con Afantasia

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Tengo afantasía. También soy una persona muy sensible con rasgos validados por la investigación de Elaine Aron. Uno de estos rasgos es la sensibilidad de procesamiento sensorial. Soy sensible al dolor, al sonido, al olor, a las luces, al tacto, a la temperatura, etc. De joven sobresalí en matemáticas, disfrutando de la experiencia como una forma de distanciarme de un entorno emocional turbulento. Tengo buenas aptitudes espaciales y he padecido afantasía la mayor parte de mi vida. Cuando me centro en la investigación, me distraigo menos con lo externo, pero cuando mi mente está libre, soy consciente de las distracciones nombradas. Hace poco leí que “los afásicos experimentan niveles más bajos de sensibilidad sensorial, abrumados por “entradas sensoriales que pueden ser luces brillantes, ruidos fuertes u olor a perfume”, afirma Carla Dance, investigadora doctoral de la Universidad de Sussex, en el Reino Unido”. Este hallazgo me ha dejado perplejo, por lo que me gustaría plantear esta pregunta a la comunidad. ¿Hay alguien en la comunidad con afantasía que también experimente sensibilidad de procesamiento sensorial o que se identifique como PSH? Para aclarar, la sensibilidad de procesamiento sensorial difiere del trastorno de procesamiento sensorial.
Gracias por su respuesta a esta consulta.

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Alice Grebanier
on junio 14, 2023

In the section below Carla Dance’s article in aphantasia.com, there are several comments from people who say that they have HSP, so I don’t think you are alone. I also don’t think you should react too strongly to statements about how people with aphantasia experience the world. Most studies that describe differences in distributions of traits between different populations (such as people with and without aphantasia) are based on statistical analyses even to be able to show that difference. It is fairly rare to find something that completely differentiates between two populations, meaning that everyone in one group clearly falls in one range and everyone in the other group falls in a different, non-overlapping or minimally overlapping range. That means that conclusions about populations cannot be reliably applied to any individual, even if the distributions are skewed. So when I read categorical statements about what people with aphantasia are like, I dismiss those statements as being far too simplistic, especially if I think they do not apply to me!

The graphs in Dance’s article to my eye only show a difference in overall distribution, not an absolute difference in range. The individual data points are not indicated, and I believe the bars show 95% confidence limits for the mean GSQ scores, so I’m not entirely sure even how to interpret them, other than there is a statistically significant difference. If that difference has any practical implications for most people is an entirely different question.

I am aphantasic. I don’t think I have HSP, but I too am a bit sensitive to statements that seem to oversimplify the implications of aphantasia, which is why I am responding.