I would do anything to not have an inner monologue. I’m always alone but not really bc this voice is ALWAYS talking. I get annoyed when other people talk to me bc sometimes my inner voice is more interesting than any other human interaction. My brain is so interesting and I love it so much that it’s a problem.

I dissociate from reality for too long and it’s effecting my motor speech (i think it’s called that way). My inner voice has a larger vocabulary, speaks various languages fluently but when i have to speak things out loud i feel like 4 year old.

My inner monologue and my writing self are the same. I’ve always been an amazing essayist thanks to just being able to transcribe my thoughts but for some reason i just can’t speak them out loud.

Edits: for me if you don’t have an inner monologue, you’re not thinking at all. How do you make decisions? What if you wanna judge someone without being rude? Do you even read? You read your personal texts out loud??

I have a whole inner world inside me and i just can’t understand how can someone live without a narrator inside of you.

If someone has aphantasia i can understand. I can see images in my head but they’re not that incredibly clear, i just can “feel” and understand the image, my inner voice is really strong so she would just help me visualize it.

on the other hand i can smell things on my screen/in photos. when i hear a word or see a person my mind makes up a smell. for example, when i watch movies every character has a smell, i can smell their rooms, if they’re in a garden i can smell the flowers. whe

Edit 2: I’m a law student and i have thousands of readings to do and right now i’m preparing myself for an exam, i have to read superfast bc it’s literally in a week and i’m behind obviously. i’ve noticed that when i’m extra focused on reading the voice doesn’t speak, the voice is not reading the words of the textbook, i’m just scanning them and my brain knows what it means. I guess this is how people who don’t have an inner monologue work.