This is primarily an autism focused question, although allistics please do chime in if you have something interesting to say!
I’m not referring to stuff like Therians or “not feeling human”, although those are deeply fascinating topics. No I’m strictly referring to finding the task of imagining the human form (in say “daydream stories”) to be unpleasant/uncomfortable.
When I was real young I was REALLY uncomfortable imagining the human form. No problems with animals and weird creatures thought up by toddler me, those didn’t make me uncomfortable!
I brought this up with my IRL friend who’s also autistic. He also experienced something similar!
Anyone else also do this? I kinda want to just… Talk about it. It’s interesting.
Oof. Yeah I don’t have any issues visualizing stuff. I’m no artist so I can’t go into nice details, but I can easily visualize stuff like diagrams, mechanisms, characters doing actions, worlds, etc.
I do, however, struggle fairly hard with describing the orientations/directions/movements of inanimate objects down into words. Part of the issue is “setting the geometric origin”. Eg: “The prongs slide down.” is very context dependent, and I can really struggle with inferred context in literature.
Especially implied subject targets. I’ll be reading something and the next sentence down I’m asking myself “Wait, are we saying all this stuff about person A or person B?”
The brain is a bunch of signal processor and glue logic thrown into a trench coat.