Artists

I'm pursuing a BFA for the fun of it. (I retired from a University position, so that entitles me to take 2 courses for credit each semester). Since I'm now in a field that relies pretty heavily on visualization - and because aphantasia seems to be the current fad diagnosis - the connections are a lot more well known and direct. The last decade of my life was spent in academic success at the law school, so I worked with a lot of people with an entire range of neurodiversity - and a lot of formal accommodations that might not have been necessary if those of us who are teachers paid more attention to the wide variety of ways people learn.

I also have the self-accommodation I've been doing for years to address the memory challenges that (until now) were the biggest impact of being aphantasic.

So - I guess I'm continuing my career as an educator. I'm spending a lot of time noticing how visualization shows up in the art context and speaking to my professors about my creative process, which doesn't really fit the standard protocol for creating art. Since I'm older than most (maybe all) of them, and have spent more time in the classroom as an instructor than most of them it is an interesting dynamic. Many of them talk to me more on a peer to peer level, so I have a bit of leeway to push my own agenda regarding aphantasia