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I’m curious about your statement that you “became” aphantasic. Any specific triggering event, or how did you realize this?

AFAIK aphantasia hasn’t been super widely known about until the last decade or two (obv I have no idea how old you are now)

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I learned about it in high school, and that was 80s/90s but not by name per se. I took the ASVAB and there were questions like "fold a piece of paper in half twice, punch holes in a pattern, and then pick which image would be the result when the paper is unfolded" that I thought were ridiculously easy. I was told that they were difficult for people that cannot form mental images and these help test that ability.

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