To think my brain isn't the odd one here?

[Caszekey]

explained today to teacher the discussion I'd had with DS, 7, about concentrating in school. .. So DS and I talked about how it's one vocie is thinking about fun stuff and favourite comps etc, but the other is trying to work so you kinda have to tell the chatty side to be quiet so you can concentrate. And I told him my brain did similar. I'm concentrating on work but part of my brain is off having it's own conversation about something else and I'm thinking about them and I'm wondering about the holiday all kinda simultaneously. So I have to kinda tell the other bits to quiet.

Finished by telling teacher this is why I can't study when it's silent, cos it gives the other voices too much space...

She looked at me like a was an alien species dropped in front of her without explanation.

She said she obviously had lots on her mind all the time but never to THAT extent and she'd talk to him and confirmed (jokingly) that his individuality was clearly on me 😂

But I don't think I'm the odd own right, surely everyone's brain is as chatty as mine??

My brain constantly has several different programs running; I’m contemplating many different things in the background. But for me, that just means I need silence even more to concentrate. External noise is just too much to deal with at the same time, I can’t block it out.

I'm easly distracted but I wouldn't say it's by voices, the distractions are more.likely to be external than internal.

Isn't there a meme; there's 100 tabs open in my brain abd I can't tell which is making noise. That's me.

My brain has at least 2 conversations going at a time. One is at the front of my
conscience , one is slightly beneath but they both overlap each other and are two continuous streams. I then have another that tells me what I am physically doing. Even when trying to sleep I can only limit it to 1 voice at best and then I need white noise to make it shut up and drown out. I have got through life okish but do struggle and have recently considered I might be neurodivergent and perhaps autistic

I have adhd. I was very suprised to discover that it's mostly adhd brains that have a constant inner monologue.....I find it hard to fathom that we all don't have 101 thoughts constantly chattering away in our heads 😂

I have a constant internal monologue and sometimes have to give myself a talking to (in my head) if the monologue starts to obsess about something unhelpful - which I guess might be akin to your battling voices but it’s really just the one thread of thought.

It’s occasionally replaced with a song on repeat and that can be irritating.

I think it switches off when I watch telly!

I feel the same as you but also suspect I may have adhd 🤣