Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Lowkey bummed I don’t have any of the sexy makes-you-a-superhero-genius afflictions like Asperger’s, ADHD, synesthesia, or generational trauma. Just dumb ones — high cholesterol and prediabetes. Not even inherited as heirloom conditions, just mindless eating. Not even left-handedness. Does aphantasia count?
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Aphantasia is like Hawkeye in the sexy conditions avengers Gonna start a neurotypical schmucks union. We demand higher pay for awestruck bystander reaction shots.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
On the bright side, there is large chance you have a “yet to be identified and named” affliction that you earned from spending so much time writing on the internet 🫡
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depatchedmode
@depatchedmode
Imo aphantasia is a peer of all the above. I say this as a lefty who failed to achieve intellectual greatness despite spending a brief period in a wheel chair at a young age.
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Paul Millerd
@pmillerd
I have aphantasia too. I suspect it makes writing easier? Which doesn’t fit the writing is pain group either haha
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Ike
@iw
Reminds me of the movie 'Mystery Men'.
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gilles
@gilles
aphantasia should count
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parallel-minds
@parallel-minds
Always thought u gave ADHD vibes, but perhaps just projecting. Fwiw what you describe in tempo with your mind transforming gives off neuriduvergent/shaman vibes. If things go downhill you can always join us sad metamodernists, https://metamoderna.org/neuroatypicality-is-the-shamanism-of-late-modernity/
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