Aphantasia: My Mind’s Eye is Blind, But I Dream in Ideas

Living with a language-based brain in a visual world.

Photo by Cheryl Winn-Boujnida on Unsplash

My son Nicholas was thirteen when I read Temple Grandin’s autobiography Thinking in Pictures and learned two things that changed my life.

The first was that Nick was autistic. He didn’t have ADHD, which he’d been misdiagnosed with at age six. He didn’t…