Duncan Barrett

WOW... You just described myself better than I could. Would also add the inability to see my past self as something other than my present self.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Never thought of this, now I know why I am so bad at spelling when typing, will try with pen & paper now when struggling.

Can relate to everything you're saying there, especially when it came to Maths exams. Passed my O'Grade with flying colours as all formulae where provided, failed my Higher (Scottish qualifications) misserably as you had to commit all formulae & proofs to memory. Sounds to me that you probably have SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) as well.

Any update on this? Find this hard to believe, if you search for "Aphantasia" on the NHS website you get no results. If you then follow the link to 111.nhs.uk then they just send you back to the main NHS website where there is still no results. When I mentioned my aphantasia to my GP in the passing when I was there for another issue she had never heard of it. I'll give her credit for the fact that she wrote it down, don't know if she did anything about her lack of knowledge though or just binned the piece of paper when I left.

Not so much extra help but be more understanding of differences in the way poeples minds work. I'd like to think that things are better nowadays than when I went to school in the 70's. I remember once the whole class getting punished because I "refused" to take part in a class objective I was actually incapable of doing.

According to my partner the thing she is most jealous of is the fact that I don't dwell on things. She still gets stressed out by things that happened to her as a child as she can remember them in extremely rich detail. whereas I can remember of things but with no detail, almost as if it had happened to somebody else.

Good point, thanks, now feel less guilty about all the porn I watch.