[francpaul]

I have aphantasia. But I do have a good "visual" mind. I'm a super recognizer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_recogniser). I can see someone and KNOW that I've seen them before. I can recognize people I haven't seen in 25 years. Even if they've become adults in the interim. I immediately notice if someone changes their hair. But, I cannot visualize at all. Particularly not faces. I cannot see family members without looking at them. When I look at them I can notice deltas of things I haven't seen before. A change in hairstyle, new glasses etc. But I cannot 'see' what it was before, I cannot 'see' the old hairstyle or glasses. I can notice the anomalies. I can recognize faces really well. But only actually using my eyes. I think a lot in terms of how things relate to each other. My brain seems to work by attributes and relations, and then make analogies and predictions based on those. There's more an understanding of the relationships of the facial features to each other, and as a whole, than the exact qualia of the feature.