“Aphantasia…?” It sounded vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t quite remember the word’s meaning.
“It’s a neurological condition. I cannot form pictures in my mind,” Damien explained. “I have no ‘mind’s eye.’ I never have; not even when [REDACTED]. It probably helped me as a medical doctor, and to have survived with my sanity all these years… I do not remember visuals well, for better or… for graphically worse. And I don’t have an inner monologue either.” Damien shrugged.
Sharing a bit of my #hopepunk novel for today's #WIPSnips, "doctor"
Anyone familiar with Damien's rare neurodivergence, aphantasia?
Definitely an interesting one.
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