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The Autumnal Equinox. My favorite season. Bring on the sweaters and apple cider, the changing colors on the trees and the crunch of leaves underfoot, jackets (and pockets!) and flannel shirts, fires in the backyard pit while sipping a nip of homemade nocino. I’m here for all of it and more.

Aphantasia (/ˌeɪfænˈteɪʒə/ AY-fan-TAY-zhə, /ˌæfænˈteɪʒə/ AF-an-TAY-zhə) is the inability to voluntarily visualize mental images.

This is a condition many people don’t know they have until later in life.

Not everyone can “picture things” when they close their eyes or read.

Medgar Evers: June 12, 1963
John F. Kennedy: November 22, 1963
James Chaney, Michael Goodman, Andrew Schwerner: June 21, 1964
Malcom X: February 21, 1965
Martin Luther King Jr.: April 4, 1968
Robert F. Kennedy: June 5, 1968
Fred Hampton: December 4, 1969

Not “unprecedented”. History rhymes.