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Clare's avatar

David I 'accidentally' found I also had aphantasia from the article Kate wrote in 2021 when I was 48! Suddenly my whole life of not understanding so much fell into place and I managed to find so much peace and a way forward with this knowledge of how my crazy lil brain works. Even down to my relationship with my (hyper-phantasic!) partner, who couldn't understand when he'd try and describe something to me and I couldn't visualise it (where he can visualise eeeeverything!) he'll now show me or draw me a picture and I can aaaah now I know what you mean. Your article then absolutely changed my life in ways you can never imagine, so ngā mihi nui to you and Kate! Oh and it was a shock to me to realise that people can visualise, I just assumed everyone was like Kate and I who can only see black when we close our eyes :)

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A stunning reminder that there is no one universal experience outside of birth and death. I hope that if I make a broad assumption around someone about something that person has never and probably never will experience, that they will grant me the grace of correcting me so I can go forward with more care in the future. Not that it should be someone else's job to educate me so that's why pieces like this are so very important.

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