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Aphantasia is the inability to create mental imagery.

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A weird question, but how is your handwriting? (self.aphantasia)

submitted 1 year ago by Alatain to c/aphantasia

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This one just occurred to me, but I have always had iffy handwriting and recently have been trying to learn Russian which is reliant on fairly tricky cursive.

I have found the whole experience of learning a new style of cursive to be frustratingly difficult and was wondering if not having a good visual memory might lend itself to a slightly harder time of it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My handwriting of the English alphabet (my native language) is quite readable, though I only print and stopped using script/cursive a long long time ago. When I studied Japanese in college, though, I struggled mightily to remember and write the characters. (Only talking about the simpler katakana and hiragana “alphabets” here, not kanji which are difficult for everyone due to sheer quantity.)