Comment by Lerc

To provide perspective on that, as part of an employment thing I was given an an assessment in my abilities, this wasn't a simple questionnaire but a multi hour one-on-one with a professor (who did it as a side gig to fund his research)

My abstract reasoning scored beyond the measuring ability to test. At the time I did not know that aphantasia was even a thing, the term may not have even been coined yet I can't remember the exact year it was, but he recorded his results on a palm pilot.

Interestingly I answered some questions not exactly incorrectly but differently, due to perceiving a question as asking for a different class of information than how most people interpret it.

Examples were I considered building a house or a garage to be the same use for a brick (as opposed to as a weapon or as paving) which was deemed unusual. I also learned that it is normal to say the sun rises "in the east", and not "at the horizon". Not usual, but also not wrong.

When it comes to drawing I can do a decent snowy the dog, but I can't picture it I'm my head. I just know things like the eyes are black ovals stretched vertically and there are two lines in the ears that do not connect to the outline.

I could easily draw a diagram of a bike, but not one coming towards me, I believe that is a particular skill of artists to draw things as they appear instead of how they are.