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		fao_ on March 18, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An Experimental Autism Treatment Cost Me My Marria... For me, the visualisation happened so fast I am not sure of whether I thought of a real steeple, then an abstract steeple, or vice versa.

jcoffland on March 18, 2016 [–]

Then it was abstract.

fao_ on March 18, 2016 | [–]

Not neccessarily. I know I pictured a real steeple (One that exists, and I have seen), and I know I pictured an abstract steeple (A rather quaint generalisation); it is simply that I am unable to discern the order that they were imaged in.

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