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minus-squarejaemo@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 months agoJust imagine that when the voice in your head usually stops speaking the printed words, that it keeps going. At first it maybe is just offering opinions about what you just read, but gradually it starts opining about your every action. Then every thought. In my case, and I think in many, we’re not pretending to argue. We’re arguing. And it never needs to pause to take a breath. If anyone ever asks me why I ever smoked weed, it was to shut that guy up. Just for a while.
Just imagine that when the voice in your head usually stops speaking the printed words, that it keeps going.
At first it maybe is just offering opinions about what you just read, but gradually it starts opining about your every action. Then every thought.
In my case, and I think in many, we’re not pretending to argue. We’re arguing. And it never needs to pause to take a breath.
If anyone ever asks me why I ever smoked weed, it was to shut that guy up. Just for a while.