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Responding to Anne’s comment that one can have strong spatial skills without visualizing objects: yes, my partner has very strong spatial skills and also has aphantasia (she does not think in pictures). Around 2-5% of the population thinks without visualizing. So spatial skills don’t require picturing objects in one’s mind, but on understanding complex spatial relationships.