• ComradeSharkfucker
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    1 year ago

    Some people don’t have an inner voice?!?!??!? Wait some people can’t do any of that? How do they read?

    • There’s actually quite a variety of what goes on in people’s minds. Some people’s internal worlds are similar to each others’, and some are drastically different. I think of it as one of the cool things about being a social species: people think differently, so we can solve different problems to benefit the group. I think that as a species, some of the worst things happen when we all think alike because people who all think exactly alike are easy to control.

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      81 year ago

      How do they read?

      The words I read make sounds in my head but when I’m just thinking I don’t have any inner monologue, I just kind of think the thing directly instead of vocalizing it in my head.

    • Mr. Satan
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      41 year ago

      I can kind of shut off the voice when I’m reading, so I just look at the word and know what it is. It’s harder with unfamiliar words, those have to be sounded out.

    • ilyenkov [she/her, they/them]
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      21 year ago

      I have an inner monologue, but it isn’t active when reading (besides, perhaps, to critique). I just see symbols and know what they mean, I don’t have to say the word in my head.