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Aphantasia is the inability to create mental imagery.

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How did you find out you're an aphant? (self.aphantasia)

submitted 2 years ago by ndr to c/aphantasia

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Back near when I first met my now-spouse, they were telling me about how it affects them and I was like “but wait, seeing stuff in your mind’s eye is just a metaphor, isn’t everyone like this??” and they explained to me that nooooo. 😂

[–] ndr 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How did they react to you being like this? In my experience, they either don't believe it or are even more mind blown than I am.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, I was unclear, sorry — spouse is also an aphant and didn’t know I was too (since I didn’t know it was an actual thing yet). 🙂

[–] ndr 1 points 2 years ago

On the other hand, my SO is probably a hyperphant (or close). That's... interesting.

I love saying (visually) disgusting things that I'm immune to 😈