pugson
@pugson
learning that people canโt imagine how things look or donโt have an internal monologue is like discovering a new species. literally wtf how do you live like this
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Steve
@sdv.eth
I honestly thought people were trolling but it feels like too many people are in on the joke for it to be fake ๐ซจ
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tldr (tim reilly)
@tldr
I am very very low on this โvisualizationโ spectrum. I will absolutely never see a person or thing in my mind unless I actively force myself to do it. And the image is not super vivid when I do. At the same time, I seem to be *extra* sensitive to the visual things around me. Especially light. So maybe this is related? When something or someone is mentioned, instead of seeing anything I primarily get a very strong โfeelingโ about its unique set of โqualitiesโ and how they relate to the context weโre in. To the question of โhow can you live like this?โ Iโd answer โ I donโt think Iโd like to change it actually. Probably most of all bc much of the way that I am is built around this. Itโs fascinating how minds work so differently. (PS - I have super strong internal monologue, and will often hear things. Like the timbre of someoneโs voice or something. Much more so than images)
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pugson
@pugson
this explains so much. i am also terrified
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
I have something like this, I think, and only realized it within the past couple years. When I read or write, I โvisualizeโ things in a sense, but itโs not really โvisual.โ Like, if a book describes a grassy field full of flowers, I donโt see it in my mind unless I stop reading and force myself to envision it. And even then, itโs hazy and vague. But I do have some other version of a โvisual,โ itโs just not visual in nature. Like, I have the feeling and sense of exactly what that image is like. Just non-visual
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Kasra Rahjerdi
@jc4p
iโm a 5 but i have a constant series of multiple voices, everyone else in my fam is 1-2 โ only other 5s i know are on the spectrum or programmers or both
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triumph
@triumph
this is how i feel when the internal monologue debate comes up and in the end i inevitably feel like the retarded one hate it every time๐ฅฒ
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