Hi,
I’ve known that I have aphantasia for a few years now, but just learned about SDAM yesterday and am fairly sure I have that too. I usually like how my mind works but sometimes it’s really lonely. It’s cool that there’s a website like this. If anyone wants to say hi, please do.
/Ari
My emotions are pretty full, but my connections to others (the lack of common memories) is where it shows up for me.
The worst part seems to be that I don’t even know what I don’t know. I was watching a movie, and my wife made the comment that we had seen that movie at a drive-in theater. In 1 million years, I would’ve never guessed that we had seen that movie at a drive-in theater.
We were discussing our wedding in relation to my empty memories, and I was able to guess two of my groomsmen. And I disagree with her about other ones. Turns out that I had six groomsmen, but I only remembered two for sure… and those I knew had to be there (my brother, for example)