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- Comment on People With Aphantasia Can't Visualize Anything. So How Do They Dream? 3 days ago:
My mom gained aphantasia from (we believe) years of undetected epilepsy and TBIs. She loses her things constantly. I have no idea if the two are related in her case. She also has really bad ADHD and the part of her brain that turns what she wants to say into actual sounds is fucked up so she stutters and forgets words and just replaces things with “Thingy”
It’s fascinating to be honest. The stutter and word forgetting thing started after a horse riding accident. It’s okay, though, because she proved she can be a rodeo champ. She stayed on for over 8 seconds. (My mom always mentions the rodeo champ part to lighten the story a bit)
- Comment on People With Aphantasia Can't Visualize Anything. So How Do They Dream? 3 days ago:
My mom has aphantasia we believe is caused by years of undetected epilepsy and multiple TBIs.
She and I think completely opposite. She has a strict internal monologue with zero pics while I can only think in pictures/scenes and concepts.
Playing DND together is really interesting because we have to get as many visual examples as possible for stuff that’s happening for her to look at. She’s the only one in our group with aphantasia, so we all get pumped to find art to use for the sessions.