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22 Dec 2015, 3:16 am

Really I hadn't imagined you with any specificity.....except that you are your avatars!

Strangely, I slightly consider us all as related (Aspergian kin).

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22 Dec 2015, 3:19 am

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I picture other members as their avatar, or as the letters of their screen name if they don't have an avatar.

If someone describes their appearance I will imagine what they describe if it is concrete enough....but the image I come up with is generally more like fragments of a person with very obvious blank parts -- or a sort of kaleidoscope of such image-fragments (with blank parts) that match the description, shifting always because I have no idea which image-fragments might come close to any part of what the person actually looks like in reality.....well, maybe it's more like a mosaic than a kaleidoscope, with all the tiles/pieces of glass changing constantly and shifting around a bit to accomodate the changes, and some big blank spaces where tiles/pieces of glass are missing.

That's how I imagine 'real' people

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22 Dec 2015, 3:39 am

LabPet wrote:

That's how I imagine 'real' people

Does "'real' people" mean people you have seen before in person (or in a photo or movie)?

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22 Dec 2015, 4:06 am

im new to this particular forum but have posted on others in the past (mainly due to hobbies / sports) i generally dont have a picture of online aquaintances, but do tend to read there posts in a particular tone or accent if i get to know them. depending on how i view their opinions will dictate the tone i use to read

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22 Dec 2015, 4:20 am

How I like to be imagined by others on message boards:

How I'm likely imagined by those who know me in reality:

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22 Dec 2015, 4:27 am

animalcrackers wrote:

LabPet wrote:

That's how I imagine 'real' people

Does "'real' people" mean people you have seen before in person (or in a photo or movie)?

I consider 'real' people as those whom we encounter everyday (not pictures or film actors or characters).

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22 Dec 2015, 4:54 am

LabPet wrote:

animalcrackers wrote:

LabPet wrote:

That's how I imagine 'real' people

Does "'real' people" mean people you have seen before in person (or in a photo or movie)?

I consider 'real' people as those whom we encounter everyday (not pictures or film actors or characters).

Okay.

I was just wondering if you were talking about a visual processing/visual recall thing, and thought if it was that maybe you'd imagine people in photos or films the same way.

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22 Dec 2015, 5:17 am

i just see their words. i do not take any notice of their avatar with respect to my impression of them.
some young males have pretty female models as their avatars and other people just choose a generic one which means nothing, so i pay no attention to them as an indicator of who the person behind them really is.

i also do not spend any time trying to imagine the members as actual people because i have no personal investment in internet communication, and i am just responding to other words and i am interested to see what words are generated in response to my words, but who they are from or the personality behind them is irrelevant to me.

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22 Dec 2015, 1:30 pm

It runs the gamut: from folks who are just disembodied voices from beyond to folks who are quite vivid in my minds eye (even if the image might be less than accurate).

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22 Dec 2015, 2:54 pm

I know it's weird but I see everyone on here as superheroes with various superpowers at their disposal.

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22 Dec 2015, 3:20 pm

YESS

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22 Dec 2015, 5:40 pm

I imagine them as their avatars. I know that's not what they actually look like of course, but it's how I imagine them. I like that thought, just like I like 'being' a ninja turtle here.

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23 Dec 2015, 1:13 am

Surely someone has started a thread on everyone describing themselves? That could be interesting!

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23 Dec 2015, 1:15 am

Merry Christmas, to all my imaginery friends

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23 Dec 2015, 1:40 am

I don't imagine the other members. They are words and thoughts to me and nothing more. Those words and thoughts are important to me. But, that is all that is important. I never thought about this until I read the thread title.

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23 Dec 2015, 6:19 am

C2V wrote:

Surely someone has started a thread on everyone describing themselves? That could be interesting!

There is one in which everyone described themselves. Many posted pics of actors who theyve been told they look like.

And there is another thread of "post your pic" in which many post actual pictures of themselves.

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