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I read that and went "huh. I guess I'm weirder than I thought."
My experience of it is quite different from most, as I have come to understand.
I never understood what people meant when they said "That character in the movie didn't look at all like I imagined him."
I always thought they just meant "I don't think the movie makers came up with a good version."
I did try my hand at writing fiction once, and I was boggled at how hard it was to do something like write a military skirmish. I was sketching maps and trying to work out topography and all kinds of details.
Now that I know people can visualize the scene then describe it, well... my difficulties make a lot more sense.
I can certainly still enjoy the plot of a fiction story, but yeah, the fact that my experience of stories told through text/audio is apparently really limited is sad...
What was the point at which it "clicked" for you? For me it was an AskReddit thread a few years back with a prompt of "When you hear a 'three X walk into a bar' joke, what does the bar look like?" It had just never occurred to me that people can actually visualize a bar when they hear that joke.