Is Aphantasia Genetic? What about Hyperphantasia?

Is Aphantasia Genetic? What about Hyperphantasia?

Aphantasia is the inability to picture things in your mind (bring to memory faces, places etc.).  More on it here .  Hyperphantasia is the opposite. One sees everything they think about: good and bad. T…

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Expat Interview

Expat Interview

Those who follow me and are aware of my work, now that I am an immigrant. My memoirs are filled with stories from my "pilgrimages" in Italy and the UK. What, you didn't know that I am a…

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Friends are the family I choose for myself: Testimony of magnanimity

Friends are the family I choose for myself: Testimony of magnanimity

I love my family, I love it very much. However, I left my country and separated from those I grew up with a long time ago. I haven't seen my siblings all together in more than 20 years. If there…

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The sense of not belonging

The sense of not belonging

Do you ever feel like not belonging anywhere?  I do. Often. Way too often.  Sometimes I even feel like I don't belong to my body.  I don't feel trapped in it, no. I am a woman, and I don't w…

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The sun will shine on your road too

The sun will shine on your road too

"The sun will shine on your (our, my) road too," is a Romanian proverb that my family uses a lot, especial one of my sisters, Alexandrina. In English, this would be "After a storm come…

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Aphantasia - Being blind in your mind

Aphantasia - Being blind in your mind

Aphantasia... What is it?  Have you ever heard of it?  What a beautiful word, isn't it?  Aphantasia - a term coined by the researchers of the University of Exeter/Devon/England - is the inability t…

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Inspirational and Motivational Movies

Inspirational and Motivational Movies

When I started writing my self-esteem was... inexistent. The courage to write was there because I write since I learned the alphabet's letters, but the courage to publish was nowhere to be found…

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14 Nuante de Rosu - Writing & publishing in my mother tongue

14 Nuante de Rosu - Writing & publishing in my mother tongue

I've written a more complete variant of this posts on Linkedin .  However, I need to make public a few things on my blog too.   It's not easy to write about myself and my work. It does not co…

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Support, encouragements and lottery tickets

Support, encouragements and lottery tickets

I don't know what you do or what you dream of, but I want to be a world-famous author. I wanted this since I was 8, but I didn't dare to dream that it could be possible until I turned 40 - w…

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