My husband forwarded this article to me about Aphantasia. I found it really interesting about the way this man describes the his world and how he never really understood that others navigate it differently and

https://goo.gl/AhWzyW

affects how he reads & writes.

Makes me wonder if issues such as my son's difficulty in expressing himself has a similar type of component. He is clearly not Aphantasia. That his brain just doesn't organize the world in the same way others do. Kind of why the best way to get an essay from him is to often refresh the question because questions like "what is your favorite" really have no meaning to him.

As if this gives us a better idea how to understand ASD even if it's not the same thing, than most of the literature out there.