Kathryn Polley

Hello!  I live near Glasgow.  I'm somewhat wary of the idea of meeting randomers from the internet in person but based on my discussions with others locally there have to be plenty of Scottish aphantasiacs.  If that's the term!

I remember experiencing awful homesickness when I went to France to stay with my penfriend and her grandmother.  I hadn't felt it when I went to stay at her parents' home but her grandmother lived in a more remote place and it was so alien to my life experiences thus far and I just wanted to go home.  I'd have been about 12 or 13 at the time.  As an adult, I went to live in America for a while with my husband-to-be, and experienced no homesickness at all.  I didn't when I went away to college either.  In fact I could barely stand to go home.  However, just last year, I went to visit an aquaintance in the south of England (I'm in Scotland) and the hoemsickness hit hard.  I suspect it was to do with the living conditions.  I did not like where I was.  And I didn't have anyone I really felt comfortable talking to, but also couldn't just escape to be on my own.  So I've noticed that in both cases where I felt what I've described as homesickness, it was probably more that I just felt very uncomfortable about my surroundings and company and yearned to be somewhere that I didn't feel that way.  Is that the same as homesickness?  Not sure.