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If you don't have an internal voice, what form do your thoughts take?
For example, if you want to think something over before you say it, how do you experience that? Or when reading a book, how do you experience the words in your head?
I'm just a non-aphant, curious about how other people experience the world :)
EDIT: Please read u/intellectualgulf's excellent comment below that defines internal voice and monologue, it may help you frame your internal experiences in common definitions. Link to comment.
I am full aphant and I also lack an inner monologue like a narration. I only "hear" myself when I am reading or writing, but I really can't change the volume or how it sounds. Usually I just think in abstract concepts, body sensations and spatial awareness. I can use this inner voice to talk to myself, but it's really useless as it seems like i am translating my thoughts to myself (and I already know what i am thinking, lol); I would like to be able to hear sounds (replay conversations that I had, per exemple) or to visualize stuff because it sounds useful, but I don't really see any point in this inner monologue stuff.
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My question is "how can someone doesn't think before they speak?". We are always thinking. And I don't need any practice to say what I want or need to say. Only if I am trying to choose "the right words" (like this was even real).