Ethinolicbob t1_j61emyu wrote on January 27, 2023 at 12:48 AM

Reply to comment by NaditzuKokoro in The voice in your head can't change volume, so you can't annoy mindreaders by yelling. by Neoslayer

There's always thought, but for me it's more like abstract data than an internal monologue.

For me personally I don't think I'm completely on that side of the spectrum but I did find it frustrating that I found it hard to engage in live conversation as it took me a while to convert thoughts to language.

This did lead to many people thinking me simple in my younger years.

I eventually compensated by memorising tons of scripts that I could use to engage in conversation which I use in day-to-day conversation and use it to buy time while I work out how to convert unscripted thoughts into language

NaditzuKokoro t1_j61hl23 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 1:10 AM

I can see why that would lead people to think you were a bit slow or simple as you put it. That's got to be hard to explain to your average adult as an adult, let alone with the vocabulary a normal child.

Ethinolicbob t1_j61j48h wrote on January 27, 2023 at 1:21 AM

To be fair I had no idea everyone wasn't like this until partway through secondary school.

Was learning another language and some of the class had spent a good amount of time overseas immersed in that language and came back saying their thoughts sometimes switched between languages.

To my confusion I asked how their thoughts had a voice which confused everyone else who didn't understand how thoughts couldn't have a voice