Maura M

Yes yes yes! 100% agree I feel how u feel. There has to be a link. We rely heavily on verbal and linguistic learning ability. I can’t remember anything!

Oh also want to comment that the only way I made it through school or college was like semester by semester. I had to basically store whatever I needed for an exam in my short term memory.. try to remember as much as possible just to take the tests and then it would be gone.. could never retain anything and it was so difficult if I had a class that was like the next level to a prerequisite class cause I just stuggled to remember. But making a reference or cheat sheet was soo helpful. I’m definitely a numbers and verbal learner where I can write it out and figure it out, but I hated when teachers like calc tried to always make you memorize everything. Stressed me out. But the teachers that allowed like a formula sheet, I was like thank goodness. But still not sure how this affects memory I just have a feeling it HAS too. Cause I’ve been trying to find out why my memory sucks and then I just found out I have aphantasia and that honestly instantly made me think… wow that’s why I can’t remember things.

This must be one of the effects of aphantasia… it all clicked for me and you are literally discribing my life. I just thought I had memory issues for real. This has to be why! Would love to connect to discuss because I have talked to people and they remember soo much since they were kids. And you really resonated with me when you said you can only recall things because maybe a picture you saw and you just “know” about it that it happened but cannot remember or really recall details and definitely can’t imagine it.. even though it was your past. I have friends tell me stories that literally are about my life and I’m listening as if I’ve never heard this before. Obviously I can’t picture what they are saying but I can listen to the story and I’m just like wow cool. They always ask if I remember and I’m just like maybe.. kinda or naw not really but kinda know…