content: The term used in the study was "inner monologue" and yes something ~20% of people had never had an experience with it, nearly 50% rarely experienced inner monologue or experienced it maybe twice a week where as the top 20% described their inner monologue as functionally constant, only when focusing on a particular task that required full concentration did it subside. v/milliondollarextreme shared the study recently, I would check there. This was a study done at a college maybe 20-30 years ago the details are a bit fuzzy but I remember hearing about many years ago and being surprised and asking people about it and yeah a bunch of NPC faggots and niggers thought I was coming out as schizophrenic to them because they had never experienced inner monologue.