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I do not remember my life and it's fine

What reminiscing is like without mental imagery

In the case of the job application questionnaire, I struggled with it for several days, asked a friend for advice, and eventually managed to put together a lame but passable answer based on my research notes. In fact, a recent study has found that aphantasics aren't any worse than non-aphantasics as eyewitnesses: although the participants "recalled 30% less correct information and accounts were less complete," "they made no more errors and were as accurate as typical imagers." Whenever I think about a period of my life, all the "situational" and somewhat "concrete" memories I get are averaged out, all similarities between separate days and recurrences overlapping each other and blending together, while all the deviations from routine are washed away into oblivion: everything in the past progressive.

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