Did you even read the wiki article you linked? I have aphantasia and I promise you that fiction isn’t a foreign concept and I have a very active imagination.
I can see where they were going with it, with this:
In 2021, a study that measured the perspiration (via skin conductance levels) of participants in response to reading a frightening story and then viewing fear-inducing images found that participants with aphantasia, but not the general population, experienced a flat-line physiological response during the reading experiment, but found no difference in physiological responses between the groups when participants viewed fear-inducing images. The study concluded the evidence supported the emotional amplification theory of visual imagery.[23]
But calling them simple doesn’t make sense, given that the article opens with the fact that this was initially found to have a higher incidence in the scientific community. Plus, it’s especially fucked up because of this:
In 2021, a study relating aphantasia, synesthesia, and autism was published that found that aphantasics reported more autistic traits than controls, with weaknesses in imagination and social skills.[26][27
They’re the type of person who calls people simple so they’re probably simple and just looked at the Greek meaning of the word and took it as the literal definition.
Did you even read the wiki article you linked? I have aphantasia and I promise you that fiction isn’t a foreign concept and I have a very active imagination.
I can see where they were going with it, with this:
But calling them simple doesn’t make sense, given that the article opens with the fact that this was initially found to have a higher incidence in the scientific community. Plus, it’s especially fucked up because of this:
They’re the type of person who calls people simple so they’re probably simple and just looked at the Greek meaning of the word and took it as the literal definition.