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Never thought about it, but indeed, I do not say the word in my mind. It somehow clicks into a meaning.
On those Facebook groups, people kept having these little aha moments where they could explain some of their behaviors with this newly acquired knowledge. I left those groups when I noticed it became almost like an obsession for people.
I'm happy I found out about it, but don't like too much the idea of labeling people, so I barely think about it anymore. We're all quite different in many ways. To steal a word from the autism world, all of our behaviors are on a spectrum, doesn't mean one is weird or abnormal.
Haha, as a side note, I was just thinking what I could do an AMA about. Couldn't think of much people would be interested in. Not sure many people would have much to ask about being a physicist. Maybe I could to a tag-team AMA with other aphantasic people :)
People might be interested in both: i.e. "I'm a physicist and aphantasic. AMA."
I started out in physics, so I'd definitely be interested in picking your brain.
Without doxxing yourself, what kind of physics?
This was just undergrad study and a couple of grad level courses. I had a focus in atmospheric physics and worked as an RA through most of undergrad.
That's really interesting, especially that you're one of the people with no internal dialogue.
I'm going to guess that you're a faster reader than I am. As I read, I internally say each word. I used to find it frustrating, because I knew I had registered the word before I finished "saying" it and should therefor be able to read much more quickly without doing that.