[TaupeRanger]

Hot take: aphantasia doesn’t exist, it’s just that individuals have very different understandings of nebulous words like “memory”, “minds eye”, “mental imagery”, etc. The essay here is just one person describing problems that everyone has in various degrees of severity.

[enneff]

That is a hot take but it doesn’t really line up with research nor my anecdotal experience discussing the topic with close friends that have aphantasia.

[vasco]

Also while describing their inability to remember specific episodes they describe specific episodes.

> There are many memories there, but most of them can't be retrieved with convenient keywords like "a time when X happened".

In a paragraph about "times when I couldn't recall specific episodes" and describing a job interview from the past.