@PhoenixSerenity @Quasit

Understood. Just wanted to be clear, as it read as if you were suggesting my SDAM aphantasia was "cognitive dissonance", by way of comparing your friend's experience to my own.

PTSD is one of the things aphants struggle to get support for, as the absence of re-lived memories often means the condition isn't recognized as such.

Yet we still have triggers. We still have other manifestations of the trauma. For several years, for instance, myself had regular pain in my chest, despite there being nothing physically wrong: a hold-over from the night the boy toy cornered me the hallway of our house and pounded me on the chest repeatedly until myself collapsed and could no longer make my legs work, having to retreat by dragging myself up the stairs to my attic bedroom.

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