Being a Premature baby and aphantasia/Sdam
1 min readByBillie M
I was a premature baby. I was born 2 months early. There has been some discussion as this may be a cause for: aphantasia and/ or Sdam. I am looking for others that were premature and their experiences.
I have zero mental first person imagery. I only see black. I have horrible navigation ability. I navigate by landmarks (GPS has been a godsend for me.) Photos are so precious to me, now I know why as I can’t picture anything in my brain. I normally remember none of my dreams…I can for a minute or two IF I am abruptly woken up. I am very short on empathy…I just don’t feel what other people do. However I can be sympathic. I don’t have music in my head…I have no idea what an ‘ear worm’ is like! I do have a running dialogue in my head…it’s usually negative, so it’s exhausting!!!