people who don't know anything about academics: man y'all are stuffy and boring what's up with that?
actual academics: *too busy fist-fighting each other over the beryllium problem or the existence of a dentistry profession in ancient egypt to reply*
My nephew has this thing where his thoughts are like words getting typed up in a word document. He sees them getting typed up, and he has to talk them out to empty it. We used to think he just had a very outgoing personality because he was always talking and rambling around other people and never quite knew how or when to stop. Eventually about halfway through elementary school he was able to describe to his mom how his thoughts work, and she found a lot of things made more sense.
He's always talking because if the words pile up in his head it gets uncomfortable holding them in. The visual nature of how he thinks meant he did all right in math class but not as well with English, and reading silently was really difficult.
She's done a lot of work with him since then. It was a big deal when he finally got hang of reading silently, and he's been able to enjoy reading just for fun a lot more since then.
When he found out that some people *do* have an inner voice he thought that was so weird. His little sister was like of course I have an inner voice, what do mean you don't? He thought that was so unfair.
He also thinks it's so unfair that she's already taller than he is because as he sees it he's the oldest therefore he should be the tallest.
Only in recent years have scientists found that not everyone has the sense of an inner voice – and a new study sheds some light on how living without an internal monologue affects how language is processed in the brain.
This latest study, from researchers at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the US, also proposes a new name for the condition of not having any inner speech: anendophasia.
This is similar to (if not the same as) anauralia, a term researchers coined in 2021 for people who don't have an inner voice, nor can they imagine sounds, like a musical tune or siren.
for my curious spinners—this is an art bat with colorful silk scraps spun thin, plied with a slightly thick and thin blush pink single for the barber pole effect~
I was taking with my friend about good omens and we were wondering how the hell aziraphale-as-crowley managed to get into that bath without getting his socks wet and so I drew this ‘helpful’ guide.
I like to imagine that all the demons had to just awkwardly stand around watching him clamber around getting into this bathtub… @neil-gaiman can you confirm?