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“Did you know that there are some people who can’t picture things with their mind’s eye?” her friend asked. A friend had come across an article about the condition and mentioned it to her in passing. They just don’t know that other people do.Īshley Xu, a rising junior at Williams College, had this experience. It’s not that they don’t notice that they don’t visualize. It might be while reminiscing about the past and realizing they’re having a different experience with memory than their friends or family. Many don’t discover that their experience is any different from that of others until their late teens or early 20s. Zeman considers it merely a difference in perception and said many aphants who have contacted him are working successfully in creative fields such as art or architecture. Zeman, it is correlated with having trouble recognizing faces (prosopagnosia), a bad sense of direction and poor autobiographical memory.ĭr. Not being able to visualize means never picturing the faces of family or close friends and remembering images as abstract information. Some who are just finding out about their condition in their 50s or 60s say they never felt hindered, while others believe they failed courses in school because of it.īut aphantasia not only impacts people’s learning experiences it also extends into their personal lives. People who believe they have aphantasia, known as aphants, debate in online groups about whether it should be deemed a disability. Aphantasia is not a monolithic condition. If visualization were essential to learning, the inability to do so might constitute a learning disability, but the reality is not that simple.