06/13/2026
A very interesting read! "Sassy Smith is founder of Aphantasia Academy, a UK-based training and education platform specialising in invisible cognitive differences including aphantasia, severely deficient autobiographical memory (SDAM), anendophasia, and anauralia.
She’s also the best-selling author of Unseen Minds: A Therapist’s Guide to Multisensory Aphantasia and Invisible Cognitive Differences, which became a #1 new release on Amazon and has topped charts on multiple occasions.
Sassy’s work combines lived experience with professional training, helping therapists, coaches, educators and mental health professionals recognise and adapt for clients whose inner worlds don’t work in the ways traditional approaches often assume.
Sassy has multisensory aphantasia which means she can’t visualise and can’t internally imagine sounds, smells, tastes or touch. As she experiences anendophasia (wordless thinking) and anauralia (the silent part of aphantasia), she has no internal monologue and doesn’t hear her thoughts. SDAM means Sassy can’t relive or re-experience memories and doesn’t usually remember events from her life, except for basic facts. She also experiences alexithymia, struggling to notice what she feels or to feel bodily sensations."
When professionals ask us to “picture”, “replay” or “listen within”, what happens to those of us who can’t?
