Aspie's thought process...

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No inner-dialogue.

Daniel thinks in pretty pictures and movies.

I guess I do too.

I'm used to speaking out loud to myself when I think about stuff. Sometimes it's amusing how I can drift from one train of thought to another over the slightest transition point.

When I'm around others, I can't do this and I have to think internally, and it makes it all the easier for me to lose track of what I'm thinking.

This is common for introverts, so I wouldn't be suprised if it were the same for ASers.

Yes, I experience this quite a bit. My mind goes a mile a minute. It's problematic for me as it makes it hard to focus on one thing at a time with all the excess chatter. My thoughts end-up wandering to something else. Then I end-up forgetting about I was mulling over half the time...

I'm trying to keep a journal for this reason.

I often have separate arguing voices in my head. The only time they agree is when they're insulting me.

I don't have it.

I have 'inner' words sometimes that I try hold back because I'm so ADHD at that moment.

Same with trying to hold back stimming and echolalic responses. They pop in my mind and if I'm lucky I can hold them back or stop mid-sentence.

But I suppose that's something completely different.

I do however have dialogues sometimes to train. Like, I don't usually have words about what I think, connected to my memories or anything.

I struggle so hard with finding words for what I see and what's totally absolutely real and clear in my head.

When I rehearse and think about it before then I can manage that and appear really verbal and good.

But this is a concious effort. When I'm tried or anything, I can't find words and have to say 'I don't know' 'I don't care' or for those that know of my AS or just know me well 'I don't know how to say this'.

I don't really "hear voices," but I do engage in a lot of internal dialogues. I'm always engaged in a private conversation with myself, sometimes aloud and other times silently, throughout each day preparing myself for a possible conversation that is expected to take place with someone later on; organizing and placing the thoughts of my daily routines into their proper chronological order; and breaking down some complicated task at hand into some manageable pattern so that I can better understand it.