• tamal3@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        The internal monologue at that point is Panic. Definitely not useful thoughts.

        I’m not autistic, but this cartoon is me.

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        10 months ago

        I think my internal monologue never really stops. It’s what probably gets in the way of the conversation. There’s like a channel two of internal speech that takes over and gets broadcasted to my brain’s main screen, and the connection to outside speech just gets cut. If I ever find the mischievous gnome who controls my brain, I swear …