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View submission: What's something you never understood about the opposite gender?
OMG! I DO!!! Does anyone else??
I have a theory about it, and I’m really working on it, but I swear my friends all think I am totally coo-coo for coco puffs!!
Comment by GladysSchwartz23 at 08/03/2025 at 18:46 UTC
19 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Absolutely. Mine is often in fact a dialogue, but both voices are me.
Comment by pissfucked at 08/03/2025 at 19:04 UTC
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i think you have a weird "small sample size" issue here, because i was absolutely under the impression that most people have internal monologs and not having one is classified as like, a sort of condition lol
Comment by Carla_mra at 08/03/2025 at 18:24 UTC
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Most people has internal monologue. But there's other people who think in images, and those who think in both. Also there are very few people who think like in a tridimensional kind of way, which I find awesome and fascinating
Comment by Doc_Faust at 08/03/2025 at 19:22 UTC
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I've asked about 100 people at this point in an informal survey; most people do have monologues but it's not a very intense majority; it's about 70% of people I've polled. I strongly suspect people who say that can think of nothing usually don't have one though. I've met people who describe having an internal monologue who are able to "turn it off" but only like two.
A side benefit of this poll is that I've learned aphantasia is probably WAY more common than is typically thought. It's something like one in five people ime.
Comment by Flimsy_Fee8449 at 08/03/2025 at 19:40 UTC
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I only recently learned that not everyone has the inner discussions and monologues.
I think most have it, but some don't.