WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

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Cake day: May 6th, 2024

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  • I’m don’t have aphantasia, but I’m pretty sure I’m worse than average at mental imagery (and far worse with faces).

    Either way, seems easier to imagine not having a minds eye than to have photorealistic mental imagery. My inner-world isn’t visualization-focused.

    Trying to visualize something with detail generally requires trying to back-solve for an image from what I know about it. Like, if I want to imagine a gamecube, I have a very vague cube-like structure image to start with, but I have to think about the ports and the side wings and handle and the expansion for GBA games individually and add them to that vague purple and white cube. While I know there are dot indicators for play 1-4, I can’t tell you if they’re above or below the ports since I never really physically interact with them, but I know where the eject button is and how its sorta dimpled since I directly interacted with that many of times. There’s no point to going through that effort of trying to make a mental image.







  • Doctors told her she would be unlikely to carry the child to term, and doing so increased her chances of infection or other severe outcome.

    When the law is a witch hunt not based on science, doctors cannot operate based on their best judgement based on science. Real issues of “unlikely” and “increased her chances” aren’t the same things as immediate medical emergency: they prevent an immediate medical emergency. Any law restricting abortions to when they are “medically necessary” will always lead to cases where its denied until its immediately medically necessary, at which point it may be too late. This is a clear-cut example of what such laws will always do and doctors being forced to tiptoe around the feelings of fanatics instead of being able to practice medicine.