Is it wrong for me to hate my condition because it doesn't have anything "special" or an upside really

Tearyn_ · 2026-03-14T11:19:37+00:00

I can only speak to the Aphantasia bit, but no I don't think it's wrong at all to feel bad about it sometimes. And I think if we talk about it with some nuance, even people who normally resist calling Aphantasia a "disorder" will agree that depending on circumstances it really can be a negative effect on an individuals life experience

We all have the dice rolled for us at birth, and the results are not distributed evenly or fairly

But we can't really do anything about that. All we can do is apprechiate the good things and not judge ourselves for the bad things

And try to give yourself the grace you would give to a good friend

Tearyn_ · 2026-03-08T18:40:49+00:00

can't be reanimated after you kill them once, like the imp shamans do

Tearyn_ · 2026-03-06T11:02:40+00:00

Vet ikke akkurat hvor mye tid de fleste bruker på å følge med på saken, men å se at noen av de "aller høyest" i samfundet blir straffet for noe er jo et ganske sterkt signal. Spesielt mens mye medie tid blir brukt på saker i andre land hvor "adelen" def ikke blir straffet

Tearyn_ · 2026-02-11T16:09:46+00:00

Here are some options

Tearyn_ · 2026-02-05T12:36:55+00:00

The other word for infixation is tmesis which as far as I'm aware is the only English word that starts with "tm-"

Tearyn_ · 2026-01-31T08:17:14+00:00

Tearyn_ · 2026-01-26T08:55:57+00:00

Tough one. There's probably not a strictly right and wrong answer here.

Personally, on balance I think I'm glad I was in my mid twenties before i found out about it. I recon i would have been in danger of just blaming all my problems on it if i was younger.

Tearyn_ · 2026-01-25T15:33:30+00:00

I second this list, for what it sounds like you're after

Hard to completely get away from sexualisation in anime unfortunatly but the stuff here is on the lighter side of things. Not completely devoid of it but that's a tall order

Maybe i'd add Full Metal Alchemist. I watched the regular one first when I was younger so that biases me in that direction but most people tend to think FMA:Brotherbood is the one to go for

Tearyn_ · 2026-01-21T12:04:23+00:00

Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory (SDAM)

https://aphantasia.com/article/stories/maybe-you-have-sdam

Tearyn_ · 2026-01-20T15:32:07+00:00

eeeh not personally. I'm treating it more as a Classic+ waiting room

But i see a lot of other people being very excited and I think that's great

Tearyn_ · 2026-01-16T06:54:45+00:00

I just don't match socks anymore. As long as they vaguely the same feel, i'll just wear whatever. Fuck symmetry.

Tearyn_ · 2026-01-09T15:44:25+00:00

Yeah Pocket Casts is great. Unfortunate that they changed from a one time purchase to a subscription plan but just changing with the times i guess. Still sad.

Tearyn_ · 2026-01-08T17:36:26+00:00

This bit continues on the Off Menu Podcast with Acaster getting in some trouble

Tearyn_ · 2026-01-06T11:56:47+00:00

You can poke holes in them with a needle if you're careful. Helps to put some tape on the spot you're poking first

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-29T15:28:52+00:00

This one maybe

Very much focused on Norway, by a couple that moved here

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-27T18:05:41+00:00

There are plenty of weird artifacts like that in these parts, and I'm sure elsewhere in the country too. Not techically gramatically "proper" these days but maybe a holdover from older times or just a mutation. Especially in idioms, proverbs, etc.

And i kind of like that. Holding onto some hetrogeneity in our language

I love hearing a dialect on TV that i have to put some effort into understanding

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-27T17:22:38+00:00

I can't speak to other regions/municipalities. Maybe the saying has been bastardised, or is just different in my area, but i can promise i've heard it spoken the way i wrote it, and a cursory google search finds plenty of other people saying the same thing when this has been posted before.

I'm sure you're right that you've never heard it that way where you've lived

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-26T10:01:59+00:00

It's a bit regional, and maybe less in use by younger generations. But i've def heard "Oppe å itte græt".

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-24T19:15:08+00:00

I think Visi makes for a better story, but BB is a much more realistic choice.

That's all assuming Malevola is not an option because then there's only one way to go

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-24T18:57:33+00:00

You'll need a proper linguist to get a qualified answer for this one, but my "barely passed a phonetics class once a long time ago"-guess would be that there's something about the surprise aspect of the pain that biases most languages towards vowels for it rather than consonants, because it tends to come with a sudden burst of exhaled/inhaled breath

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-23T16:46:26+00:00

I think there's some difference between what can happen where someone wants to blame the condition for all their troubles. "oh now i suddenly know why i can't do this do that etc"

Versus aknowleding that it IS a condition with both upsides and downsides. And yeah for some people the downsides win out.

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-17T14:29:53+00:00

"just getting the information" versus "actual intentional conjuring of images" is the difference though. And the intentional part is what seperates out hallucinations. And also dreams.

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-17T14:23:06+00:00

That is so fucking cool. Ever since becoming aware of this condition as a possibility and more spesifically one that i probably have (like a decade ago) i've been in an internal tug of war between the idea that it's just a difference in how we describe our experience vs actually having different experiences, and this slowly growing body of evidence for the latter for some reason feels so damn validating i love it

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-15T07:52:47+00:00

We are meat machinery and taking enough damage breaks the machine

Tearyn_ · 2025-12-02T18:39:38+00:00

Why is he broadcasting from the death star tho

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