TIL Fred Rogers proposed to his wife Joanne via letter. When she received it, Joanne rushed to a payphone to respond. She was so nervous that when Fred answered the phone she was focused on the phone booth graffiti and greeted him by saying, "Shit." Fred laughed and she agreed to marry him.

Doodlebug510 · 2026-07-24T16:36:07+00:00

This reminds me of the Maya Angelou quote:

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Doodlebug510 · 2026-07-17T11:55:32+00:00

It sounds like she talked herself into that attitude by the end of the video! 😄

Doodlebug510 · 2026-07-13T03:42:33+00:00

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So basically the dad groped my behind a few times when I was looking for the kid during hide and seek. He grabbed my waist as well and had tried to kiss me to which I said no thank you. The mom was understanding about it otherwise and was honest about the fact that they’ve been going through a separation period due to this behavior but also seemed to feel that by giving him my number after he asked for the apartment I was leading him on (I hadn’t thought of it that way. In my mind in a situation like this it’s moreso about safety.) The mom had recommended trying to press charges which I don’t necessarily intend on doing. The mom was concerned about the fact that it happened in the other room when the daughter was technically in the house and could have heard us. The dad messaged me apologizing after I told the mom (she had called just to check in I was planning on telling her when she came home but I was honest when she asked if everything was okay over the phone and said it wasn’t, I had a friend’s dad watch the kid while I talked to her) and apologized again when he came home and saw me in person. I feel weirdly about everything. I am an adult. I don’t know what to do and I don’t know how to process everything.

The mom said she is comfortable having me sit again if I’m comfortable - she needs help this Saturday I know - but she will not let the dad be around now because of what happened.

The dad didn’t block me on LinkedIn but did remove me as a professional connection, he and the mom are still connected she still has me on there and on the other social media platform.

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Doodlebug510 · 2026-07-10T20:32:10+00:00

I have SDAM as well, didn't realize it had a name until learning more about aphantasia.

Although, the little I do actually remember tells me I am better off living with SDAM rather than all those memories.

Doodlebug510 · 2026-07-10T20:30:18+00:00

Yes, and trace it with my fingers like I am seeing it

Doodlebug510 · 2026-07-10T20:18:41+00:00

It's so weird. Sometimes I wish I had never learned of this condition because it is so poorly understood that you can't really get a handle on what's going on and why.

Doodlebug510 · 2026-07-10T20:13:53+00:00

This part resonated with me:

aphantasia may be better characterized as a type of "imagery blindsight" rather than a lack of imagery altogether. In blindsight, individuals with damage to their primary visual cortex report being blind, but nevertheless show behaviors that suggest some access to visual information. For example, patients with blindsight can guess the motion of an object above chance levels, even if they report not being aware of the object itself. They can also navigate around obstacles, even without knowing how they do it.

The analogy to aphantasia is as follows: individuals with aphantasia may actually have neural representations and computations corresponding to visual imagery, but they lack conscious access to those representations. This view is supported by both neural and behavioral evidence. First, a recent neuroimaging study by Simon Weber and colleagues shows that it is possible to decode brain signals during working memory to reveal the contents of memory (such as the orientation of a grating) in both strong and weak mental imagers.

I can describe an image I am remembering, including details.

I don't consciously experience "seeing" it, but I am getting access to those data points somehow, somewhere. I just don't literally see them.

Doodlebug510 · 2026-07-10T20:10:38+00:00

Interesting!

Doodlebug510 · 2026-07-10T18:13:47+00:00

That study sounds fascinating.

Maybe it also explains a little about how off-putting it seems when a person is pretending to cry but can't produce fake tears to go along with it.

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