I subscribe to this model as well, with the caveat that I try to only look at local news to my city and my field.
I can’t do anything about the nonsense at a national level, I can do my part in the local context.
I didn’t find out it was a thing until I was 38 or 39. And yes, I daydream. But it’s not like watching a movie. I don’t know how to describe it besides my mind wanders and there’s a narrative.
I’ll take the bait. I’m guessing you don’t pay state tax in Kansas, so you don’t pay my salary.
I’m totally down with anyone in the state reading my stuff, though.
I think it’s because you can find supports to help you learn.
I’ve been teaching math for almost 18 years at this point, and only a couple years ago learned that I lean towards aphantasia. Back in high school, geometry was HARD. Calc 3 was HARD. It was presented as visualize and imagine, and I tried my best.
It just turns out other people could do that, and the fuzzy thing thing (or, more commonly, the ‘bulleted list of information’ that make up my imagination) was not “normal.”
If I’d known this (and my teachers were in a position to also know this), then maybe we’d spend more time with external visual models (what Geogebra now does for us, for example) to help me out.
Now that I teach future high school math teachers, it’s definitely something I talk about to normalize “not everyone can see in their mind.”
And if link is allowed https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/9.3.227