- Aphantasia: How it feels to be blind in your mind – “I have never visualized anything in my entire life. I can’t “see” my father’s face or a bouncing blue ball, my childhood bedroom or the run I went on ten minutes ago. I thought “counting sheep” was a metaphor. I’m 30 years old and I never knew a human could do any of this. And it is blowing my goddamned mind.”
- Trump ally Alex Jones claims CIA funds Beyonce to cause mayhem – Just…yup. From Alex.
- Irregular periods could boost ovarian cancer risk – “The new research provides the first evidence linking abnormally long cycles or missed periods to higher ovarian cancer risk. It also challenges a longstanding hypothesis that such risk rises progressively with a woman’s total number of ovulations.” From Mary.
- You can now download 300TB of data from the Large Hadron Collider – From Alex.
Agent black girl 666, come in Agent Black Girl 666. Your cover has been blown! Beyoncé must go into hiding. You must fake your death, just like Elvis, and spend the rest of your life with the gray aliens at Area 51. Over!
Related to aphantasia, I heard recently that dyslexia might be tied to a similar problem, where people with it lack an internal monologue. This is most notable when reading, where those without it can read in their head, but those with dyslexia often find themselves having to mouth the words as they read, since they lack that internal voice.
And all of this makes me wonder. I know I’m on the autistic spectrum, which means my mind functions different than those off of it. Does this mean that there might be some aspect of thought which others take for granted that I’m missing out on? Is there something I take for granted that others are missing out on?