I’m 5 too and I worked out it was different than most people what I was around 6yo when some kid in kindergarten asked me what my mum looked like and I said I didn’t know but all the other kids knew what their mum’s looked like.
40 odd years later and i still can’t picture my mother, wife, kids, friends or work colleagues in my head, I couldn’t give you a detailed description but I’ve trained myself to memorise features but it’s more like memorising how to spell a word than an image
I had a girl describe how she remebers things as like the memory playing on a screen in her mind and i realised then that people didnt say they ‘see it in their mind’ figuratively
Do you still recognise people even if you can’t picture them without seeing them? I’m assuming you definitely know your parents lol, but if you were to see the same cashier multiple times or something would you realise or do you just forget what they looked like?
For me anyway, not the person you asked but lemmy needs comments to feed it.
But for me, i don’t visually picture someone’s face off I’m remembering it, but i do remember what someone looks like. So when I meet someone I recognise, it just clicks. I could describe someone i know from memory but maybe not with a ton of detail.
I remember what things look like, could remember details of a painting etc etc, it’s just when i think of things, theres no visual acompaniment.
Idk its hard to explain now that I’m trying to put it in words
I’m 5 too and I worked out it was different than most people what I was around 6yo when some kid in kindergarten asked me what my mum looked like and I said I didn’t know but all the other kids knew what their mum’s looked like.
40 odd years later and i still can’t picture my mother, wife, kids, friends or work colleagues in my head, I couldn’t give you a detailed description but I’ve trained myself to memorise features but it’s more like memorising how to spell a word than an image
I had a girl describe how she remebers things as like the memory playing on a screen in her mind and i realised then that people didnt say they ‘see it in their mind’ figuratively
Do you still recognise people even if you can’t picture them without seeing them? I’m assuming you definitely know your parents lol, but if you were to see the same cashier multiple times or something would you realise or do you just forget what they looked like?
For me anyway, not the person you asked but lemmy needs comments to feed it.
But for me, i don’t visually picture someone’s face off I’m remembering it, but i do remember what someone looks like. So when I meet someone I recognise, it just clicks. I could describe someone i know from memory but maybe not with a ton of detail.
I remember what things look like, could remember details of a painting etc etc, it’s just when i think of things, theres no visual acompaniment.
Idk its hard to explain now that I’m trying to put it in words