Comment on Anon starts taking T
NateNate60@lemmy.world 9 hours ago“T” is testosterone, the male sex hormone. It’s commonly taken by transgender people transitioning to male. Testosterone causes many of the bodily changes associated with male puberty, such as the growth of body hair and muscles. Unrelated to its medical use, it’s also taken by biological males as a performance-enhancing steroid and is on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s list of banned substances.
Anon is saying that after they started taking testosterone, they developed an “internal monologue”. Most people already have this; it’s the sound of your thoughts, such as when you lick and ice cream and think to yourself “wow, this tastes pretty good”. Some people do not have internal monologue. I do not know the medical reason for this.
Anon is expressing confusion as to why taking testosterone caused them to develop an internal monologue when they previously didn’t have one.
lemming@anarchist.nexus 6 hours ago
What’s the difference between an internal monologue and just thoughts?
lepinkainen@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
A monologue is and actual voice talking in your head, I think.
Never experienced it so 🤷
Siethron@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
What is reading like for you? Do you not hear the words you’re reading in your head as you read them?
greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 1 hour ago
Its actually wilder than that, some people have aphantasia where they can’t imagine shapes or forms in their mind. If you describe a dog, they do not have a mental image of the dog.
hayvan@piefed.world 4 hours ago
That’s correct. If I’m actively thinking about something or especially going over and processing some information, I do it like I’m expleining the thing to someone else in my head, using an actual voice in my mind.
lemming@anarchist.nexus 4 hours ago
So that simulated voice of yourself saying something inside your own mind, that’s “inner monologue”?
@lepinkainen@lemmy.world So you don’t have that? What happens in your mind when you imagine yourself explaining something to someone?