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>>11905170
And I will add we knew scientifically about aphantasia since the 1800's

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Galton/imagery.htm

You can see accounts here from men interviewed who describe total aphantasia. Galton himself coined the term. However the general public was still largely ignorant of this condition until it reached some critical mass of awareness on the internet in the past few years only. And suddenly a great majority of people were introduced to the fact that not everyone thinks and even experiences the same things in their mind that they do, and that awareness helps to spread larger awareness of metacognition in general, this knowledge can only benefit us, provided more people know about it, which it took a hell of a long time for that to happen in this case.