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Nice article! I’d say I also have near total multisensory aphantasia based on his list, except my proprioception is probably 9/10, to the point I often walk around the house in near total darkness getting stuff done. Has driven my SO’s nuts over the years! lol
This sounds very much like me.
My propriception is pretty amazing; I can walk around in the dark with confidence. I don't run into things and it does perplex others. I always know where in space my body is and my sense of balance is good, potentially even great. I picked up snow boarding in an hour and standup paddle boarding in 15 min!
I have a question for you. How is your typing?
Often I will type words wrong by moving the double letters, e.g. instead "cool" I'll unconsciously type "coll". But I have no trouble switching between keyboard layouts, on my laptop I have it set to qwerty, but on my mechanical board (split crkbd) it is set to colemak. I switch back and forth all day; that confuses everyone I have talked to about it; even my keyboard enthusiast friends; they can't imagine switching back and forth.
I learned qwerty almost 4 decades ago in middle school and by high school was up to 120wpm. I've never tried another layout though, that's plenty fast for me, and a lot of my typing for the first few years was on actual typewriters! I do have a few muscle memory glitches where I will type certain words wrong almost every single time, but now the muscle memory is to type it wrong and also hit the backspaces automatically in the right place. lol
I would imagine switching keyboard layouts is a lot like switching between languages you're fluent in. It looks amazing from the outside to those that can't do it, but to you it's just natural!