I am able to “visualize” the spatial distance between objects. I put it in quotes because it’s generally blurry 2D lines (top down, like a schematic) or purely based on the relationship between those objects (i.e., I don’t “see” anything, it’s based on memory and spatial awareness of an environment I experienced using all of my senses).
These “visuals” are static and can’t really be manipulated in any way except to zoom in or rotate a little, maybe 45 degrees max. This is also why, during reasoning assessments for jobs, I take forever to answer those questions where they show you a shape, then disassemble the shape and ask you to select which set of faces it’s based on. It’s excruciating.
In real life I don’t have much of a problem; in fact, I have an excellent sense of direction that my wife envies because she’s the opposite (great mental visualisation and vivid dreams, but no idea where she is most times).
It really depends on how interesting the people are and how good they are at storytelling. I’ve met super annoying smart people and really entertaining dumb people so it’s not like intelligence is the determining factor.
I’d probably rather be hanging out with either the more interesting or more autistic group because I think we’d get along the best. If that makes me the idiot of the group, I don’t think that’s too bad of a deal.