#i didn't realize any of this was unusual until i took a cognitive psych class

[e-the-village-cryptid]

i’m curious if there’s a link here, please tell me in the tags if your inner monologue has subtitles, whether or not you have a hearing or auditory processing disability, and whether or not you learned to read early and read a lot as a kid

(by subtitles i mean that you automatically visualize the written form of the words you are thinking. the way this actually happens can be anywhere from the written form of the words just popping into your head to an actual subtitle-looking area. the only criteria are that 1. you visualize the written form of most or all words 2. it is completely automatic and happens without trying or thinking about it)

#i have hearing loss and auditory processing difficulties and my thoughts have subtitles #i also learned to read at a very young age and by the time i was around 4ish i was reading more than i was hearing/speaking #so while i was still learning my own native language i was learning it through the written language as much/more so than spoken #as for the subtitles #i can't turn them off. i can sort of push them to the back of my mind but they're still there #i can also do the opposite. just look at the subtitles and push the sound to the back of my mind but it's still there #i also realized i automatically try to create subtitles in my brain when someone is speaking to me #i didn't realize any of this was unusual until i took a cognitive psych class #and the fun in-class experiments of blocking visual stores from semantic meaning completely did not work on me #talked to the prof about it and about the hearing loss #and he was like 'yeah it's totally possible your brain just wired itself differently because the auditory route wasn't working as well.' #'we just study the averages but brains are all different and can accommodate for a lot of different things' #brains are WILD man it's so cool #anyway i'm curious if more people do this and if it's specific to hearing loss or not #hoh #hard of hearing #auditory processing disorder #an e original