This describes my own experience fairly well—except that I am definitely not visually aphantasic. This part is spot-on for me, though:
This means I can easily make a voice in my head say anything in a specific person’s voice, but that can only happen with my conscious input. These voices are purely puppets, or more accurately, just ‘voice filters’ I can put on my ‘internal voice’.
I believe I’ve never ‘heard’ anything other than what actually happened or came directly from (or through) my internal train of thought
This describes my own experience fairly well—except that I am definitely not visually aphantasic. This part is spot-on for me, though: