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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

4% is a pretty big chunk of the population. That's 1 in every 25 people. Which makes it all the more insane that nobody realised it existed as a condition until just a few years ago.

[โ€“] nik9000 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It just doesn't come up all that much. Folks live without knowing they are different.

And it is on a spectrum. Some folks is nothing others are can force a few pictures if they have to but aren't clear. I dunno.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It just doesnโ€™t come up all that much. Folks live without knowing they are different.

Case in point: The much easier to explain condition of colorblindness, which takes some people many years to find out they have!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It really depends on how you define aphantasia. Often the VVIQ score is used, a vividness score ranging from 16 to 80.

About 0,8 % of people have a score of 16, and 3,9 % have a score <= 32. The figures are from one of the more recent studies. Other studies report similar figures, for example one study by Zeman found 0,7 % with a score of 16.

About ยผ of all people with visual aphantasia also have multisensory aphantasia (all classical senses and emotions).