Here’s a really interesting thing about having #aphantasia: I legitimately don’t know / remember what I look like.

I can’t recall what my parents look like, my wife, my dog, my cat. It doesn’t mean I don’t recognize them (I’m also rather face blind), but it means I can’t make an image of them (or me) in my head. I can’t make any images in my head at all. Not even a faint outline.

Apparently this is unfathomable to many people.. but it also means, I think, that I don’t get any visual intrusive thoughts. I don’t know what that’s like. So the idea of triggering thoughts that are primarily visual is.. a totally intellectual concept to me, not a visual one.

Brains are so weird.