Neurodivergent on Sidechat | My neurotypical best friend mentioned to me that she does not have an ongoing internal monologue and that is just mind blowing to me! Sometimes it feels like my internal monologue has an internal monologue! Anyone else feel like that?

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Neurodivergent 7w

My neurotypical best friend mentioned to me that she does not have an ongoing internal monologue and that is just mind blowing to me! Sometimes it feels like my internal monologue has an internal monologue! Anyone else feel like that?

Anonymous 7w

My internal monologue is me but I do argue with myself a lot

Anonymous 7w

I’ve got like at least 3 internal monologues, and one time one of them didn’t know the old Mexican restaurant closed so my other one had to explain that’s why we were eating at the other one

Anonymous 7w

My brain is often completely silent. I can think, but there’s no monologue. I just understand things without the words

Anonymous 7w

I actually met another autistic person on here who doesn’t have one either and thinks in pictures like Temple Grandin (famous autistic women who was diagnosed in the 20th century).

Anonymous 7w

My internal monologue is super active because of my OCD. It’s like I can’t catch a break sometimes!

Anonymous 7w

i don’t have an internal monologue. is there any chance she may actually but ND

Anonymous 7w

like thinking or a voice in her head? i'm ND and have no actual internal monologue at all, but like obviously i can still think

Anonymous 6w

my internal monologue has a couple of different voices that are fighting most of the time and one that is singing all the time

Anonymous

#4 7w

See I get that my monologue is like my interpreter for that. Like someone throws a ball I just know to catch it, but if I’m doing a math problem, or thinking about what I’m going to do tomorrow, or even what I want on a pizza it talks to/as me

Anonymous

#7 7w

I can rotate the apple but I also have internal dialogue

Anonymous

#7 7w

I GOT TO MEET TEMPLE THIS PAST YEAR!!!

Anonymous

#2 7w

OMG REALLY? THAT’S AMAZING! HOW/WHERE?

Anonymous

#5 7w

…are you plural, by any chance?

Anonymous

#8 7w

Well.. not that I know of..

Anonymous

#5 7w

What do the other 2 think

Anonymous

#3 7w

I dunno man we don’t really pay attention to this sorta thing unless I’m confused about why I’m eating in a restaurant I normally don’t like

Anonymous

#5 7w

Tbh I have wondered if I am a few times throughout my life but I just never confronted it

Anonymous

#7 7w

she came to my school to speak

Anonymous

#7 7w

i tried to message you to tell you about it and what all we got to help with as students but it won’t let me message🙈

Anonymous

#5 7w

no I have this too and the best way I can explain it is that it’s like Alar from The Name Of The Wind

Anonymous

#9 7w

I’ve never heard of that but to me it’s like yea I’ve got at least 3 inner monologues who sometimes need to talk to each other, but most of the times don’t. I also don’t experience a “shift” like I hear about from plurals, nor do I experience much not being able to remember

Anonymous

#5 7w

Sometimes my inner monologue is in other people’s voices. It also switches between 3 languages.

Anonymous

#4 6w

thinking without the words???? that is just unfathomable to me i have so many words in there

Anonymous

#5 6w

To be fair you being plural is still a possibility even if you don’t experience those “shifts” or memory loss. If you are then it sounds like a different type of plural, I think (like OSDD instead of DID)

Anonymous

#11 6w

What’s is OSDD??

Anonymous

#5 6w

"other specified dissociative disorder" of which there are two subtypes to my knowledge, each similar to DID in that there are alters/fragments, but without ticking all criteria (like one is that there isn't full amnesia)

Anonymous

#6 6w

I’m thinking I need to do a littttleeeee bit of research