This topic piques my interest: Do you have an internal monologue, or do you visualize thoughts or both?
@Valkyrie_D: Both. I was perhaps forty-five years old when I learned for real that not everyone has an internal monologue, that not everyone as a matter of course visualizes all of their thoughts, that not everyone does both, and that not everyone has between four to eight independent and consciously navigable trains of thought going simultaneously all the time while they're awake.
When I learned that from my neurologists and my shrink, it explained a lot.
@thedisasterautist, everything you wrote resonates with me. I, too, have both.