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Aren't most non-adhders also having constant conversations in their heads
Apoarently they can decide to, like, just not have it right now. Like some damn wizards.
How can this be? How can they accomplish anything without the constant analysis of every permutation and facet of whatever might be on your mind at the moment? I cannot imagine not having the constantly running thought processes…
I'm not sure about other's amount of thought processes, but there are ways to lessen their impact. Mindfulness meditation helped me recognize and not engage with those thoughts, takes practice but it helps keep your mind on what you're doing rather than other things. Admittedly I haven't kept up with it but I did notice an improvement when was.
No way to actually stop the thoughts as far as I know and to be able to let the thought pass without spending time on it takes practice. Also you tend to fail at it a lot but even then you catch it more quickly to move on.
For me, personally - and I say that because everyone's different - I don't dislike that this happens unless it's the usual "remembering that embarrassing thing you did when you were 10 years old" trope. It's the incredulity that others don't have to deal with this constantly running background track in their heads.
The fuck?
They have thinking layers, the conductor layer can tell everyone else to wait their turn when trying to coordinate a symphony. ADHD typically either has no conductor or the conductor has no arms. Or random sections have weapons grade sonar as instruments.
Edit: Neurotypicals have a conductor that still needs to be trained
It's estimated that about 50-75% of people don't have an internal monologue at all.
No way it's that high
Yeah idk how they even measure that sort of thing and I'm skeptical as well, that's just the numbers floating around. I wonder too if it's tied to literacy in any way.
Though I suppose there are different ways for brains to work than just verbally. Some people's brains turn sounds into colors (perfect pitch), some brains don't have visual memory (aphantasia), and others supposedly have photographic memory. So who knows how this all actually shakes out.
That explains the state of the society I guess
Not necessarily
It was a tongue in cheek joke.
Non-adhder here. Not constant conversations, no. And not unbidden. I do have conversations in my head, and sometimes they provide answers that weren't readily available to my conscious mind. But I often have "silence" in my mind. When I'm tired enough, that's "no noticeable activity" or "just the steps required to do whatever the immediate activity." Other times it's a song or a "movie" or plans for what I'm doing later.
I have no silence unless intoxicated or in flow state on something that dose not need words. Best I can manage normally is idle narration and planning. If one voice in my head is not enough to process a concept, simulate a conversation, or ruin my day, more NPCs get added to the thought.
hey at least you get a wider range of opinions instead of just one bitter sod who always takes the dark narrative and sees the worst
I can just imagine having a bad conversion with people that I hate instead of going outside.
So you can have more voices? How does that sound like? It's like a debate or every voice talk one above the other?
Basically just imaging myself talking to someone I know well enough to guess therie side of the conversation. Sounds like best copy of their voice I can rember. Its usually along the lines of what would X say if I talked to them about Y then playing both my and X side of the conversion.
Oh yeah, i do that too i understand what you mean, sorry i imaginated something having multiple voices of you XD
God I wanna be like you, or at least have my brain be a little more like your brain.
mine isn't conversation, it's music. if there isn't audible music my brain makes some, usually with a beat pretty in line with my pulse.
My music varies. Sometimes it’s music I’ve heard recently on loop, sometimes it’s music my brain came up with, but a lot of times it’s in the background. At times I don’t even notice the music is there until I realize I’ve been playing the King George songs from Hamilton on a loop for a couple of weeks. Either that or I’ll start focusing in on something external and start humming what’s in my head without realizing it. Right now, it’s Foxy Brown’s “Oh Lord” on muddled repeat. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.
Dont know if it's an ADHD thing, but I have that. What's weird is I eventually realized that the soundtrack is talking/reflecting back to me about what's going on in my life.
Love when a random song pops in my head and I have no idea why until it get to the lyrics that are extremely relevant to whatever's going on at the moment. It's eerie as hell, though.
Exactly that experience! Gives.credence to the notion that we are a multiplicity
As a non-adhd dude, i talk in my head, i have monologues in my head and i "simulate" conversations in my head too, i do the same thing while i write and when i walk in silence i just start a big monologue or i look around commenting things in my head.
I think i can stop that but i always start to talk again in my head so idk, i should see if i get silence at a certain point
Are they? I would really like to know.