@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic Always a feeler, sometimes a doer, not a "thinker" in the traditional sense, but.... I "feel my thoughts" (having Aphantasia and no inner monologue, my answer is going to be weird..)
@dan@actuallyautistic@theautisticcoach " To him, a thought was an emotion", T.S. Eliot says of John Donne, and I feel the same about how I do my thinking. This is the first time I see someone else express it similarly.
I was like this all my life. Something about “doing” feels overwhelming.
My theory is that my brain already engages with the “work” when I’m thinking as much as, if not more than, a typical brain would doing it. My evidence for this is my extremely vivid and captivating imagination. I have all encompassing, full body experiences imagining things.
When I need to do something physically, all of that stimulation feels doubled up, as if the same neural pathways get activated once for the thinking and once for the doing, quickly burning through whatever stored energy there is in my brain.
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