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tri sapphire posted...

How does that affect your reading? Seems like something like this would greatly hinder enjoyment in literature.

I've always wondered why some people just can't seem to enjoy books, and given how common this is, I'm wondering if there's any correlation.

I was an avid reader when I was younger. I was the kid in class that other kids got annoyed at because I was always reading some fantasy book and not paying attention or participating in class but then I'd crush the test and skate by with a low C or D for the year. Throughout my 20's and into my 30's I have stopped reading nearly as much and started spending more of my free time playing video games. I generally attributed that to the improved quality of video games over the years, but it's definitely possible that I moved on to focus more on visual mediums without realizing that it was because of my lack of internal visualization.

And something that is just now dawning on me. I have always wanted to be able to draw, admired it as a talent and was jealous of people who could. In the last few years I finally decided to try to learn how to for real and discovered that I definitely do have natural ability, but it's felt like there was some kind of barrier keeping me from really feeling like I'm really capable of doing it. As crazy as it sounds, it never really occurred to me until now that it's because I am incapable of the step of picturing something in my mind before I put it on paper, it's more like I'm always trying to draw something that somebody is reading a description of.