Do you get millions of ideas but no way to release them?

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This is really annoying at times it gives me a headache! I feel i have tons of ideas but because there is so many they cannot materialise as it all becomes muddled!

Definitely. My thoughts seem to occur at a pace that is at least twice as fast as I can speak, about five times as fast as I can type. Internally I think in patterns and I learned to speak (at 4 years old) by being taught with a machine that had pictures and corresponding words that a doctor (and later my parents) would say out loud. (It took me forever to realize the sounds they were making corresponded to the words, I just thought they were making happy or sad or frustrated sounds.) So I still have to translate thoughts into those little pictures and then into words, so that is slow and it limits how I can materialize or communicate those thoughts. Writing software used structures and patterns that were a lot more like the patterns that I think in, and I did very well writing software for a long time. Certain system design (like phased RF antenna arrays, real-time avionics systems) also fit very well into my thoughts and I was very good at it, while the NTs working around me had a difficult time. I can have really good ideas that get muddled as you describe because they fall out of my short-term memory when I try to focus on turning them into words. Once in awhile at work I would really get on a roll and start verbally gushing speaking really fast, describing an idea that I really wanted to get out in its entirety, and people would glaze over or say I was getting into too much detail, please describe it in a top-down way, which was really frustrating.

What kind of ideas?

I write stories, purely fictional, and my brain comes up with them far faster than I can write them. This sort of stuff?

yup yup yup yup yup!! !

about ten stories started but not passed first few paragraphs, business ideas jotted down and scattered. Home project ideas that i've started buying stuff for and not got any further. All kinds of other ideas, scattered through my brain that just don't get jotted down.

It's like my mind is racing idea after idea, and i'm sure id make an amazing entrepreneur if I knew how to materialise these ideas

I have great imagination I build worlds in my head to the point that if there is some conflict in them I get really stressed like it was the real world. If I could manage to write them down I do believe I could get published.

Yes!

All the time.

It’s very frustrating, especially if I’m buzzing of something I love - like writing - I can’t get my my ideas down fast enough and I lose so many good ideas because by the time I’ve written down one I’ve forgotten ten!

Definitely!

I have the factual information for my biography of Denis Istomin but, at this time, I can't do what it would take, travel wise, to actually meet and interview him to get his personal story. It this time, it is just a wild dream of mine.

Oh yes. I get way more ideas than I have the time and energy to make into reality, so most of them end up getting scrapped before I even start on them.