About
Who built this, and why.
The Unseen Mind is a UK-focused, independent resource and community for people with aphantasia and SDAM. No ads. No paywalls. No sponsored content. Funded by the founder; run by a small set of volunteers; committed to honesty with the reader before anything else.
Founder note
From the founder — lived experience
[Dan to replace with a short founder note — a paragraph or two on how this site came to be, the personal story behind it, and what the author hopes it becomes. Will sit under the “From the founder” label by design, so readers know it is first-person rather than institutional.]
Editorial policy
Every claim of fact on this site carries a citation, or is labelled as lived experience. Corrections are public and dated rather than silent. The cornerstone guide and audience pages are reviewed at least annually, or whenever major new research lands. The principles we hold ourselves to:
- Never overclaim the science. The field is young. Uncertainty is stated plainly.
- Every factual claim cites a source. Research posts include DOIs where available.
- Plain English, UK spelling. Reading-age target 14+.
- Lived experience is labelled — the “From the founder” block above is one example.
- No diagnosis. We inform and signpost; we do not diagnose.
- Sensitive pages carry support signposts — Samaritans, Mind — always.
- Corrections are public. Dated notes on the page, not silent edits.
- No ads, no affiliate links, no sponsored content. Ever.
How this site is funded
The Unseen Mind is self-funded by its founder. Hosting is paid out of pocket; software is open-source. There is no advertising and no paid content; there never will be. If the site eventually takes donations, that fact will be disclosed here plainly, with annual figures.
Privacy, cookies, terms, accessibility
Full versions live on their own pages: privacy, cookies, terms, and accessibility. Short summary: we collect as little as we can, we do not set our own cookies, we do not sell or share data, the site targets WCAG 2.2 AA, and nothing we publish is medical advice.
Technology
The site runs on a small UK-based server behind Cloudflare, built with open-source components and no third-party trackers. We may publish an architecture note later; for now the short version is that every hosting choice was made to keep reader data on infrastructure we control.
Contact
Corrections, clinician/researcher enquiries, accessibility reports, and general get-in-touch messages are all welcome. The best route is to email [email protected]. We reply; it may take a week or two, especially when the research tracker is in its monthly window.
Once the forum opens later in 2026 it will be the better place for community questions. Until then, this inbox is the right place for editorial, clinical, and community matters alike.