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Is the author aware that visualisation skills run on a continuum and that an estimated 1-3% of the population cannot visualise at all? This condition is called aphantasia. I have it myself, yet I'm an avid reader of fiction.

Leslie I don't think I have that "condition," but for the most part I do not "see" a book unfold as if I were watching a movie. I have been told that oh, thaâ€¦m´Ç°ù±ðI don't think I have that "condition," but for the most part I do not "see" a book unfold as if I were watching a movie. I have been told that oh, that doesn't even really qualify as reading at all, which as someone who reads over 100 books a year and gets totally engrossed in them, I find very offensive. It's a different way of processing things, not a defect.(less)

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