When did you learn communicate consistently your inner life?

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What age did you learn to CONSISTENTLY COMMUNICATE your internal thoughts/feelings/etc. (SEE FIRST MESSAGE)

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8-11	10%	[ 3 ]
12-15	7%	[ 2 ]
16-18	14%	[ 4 ]
19-22	24%	[ 7 ]
23-29	7%	[ 2 ]
30-39	3%	[ 1 ]
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90+	3%	[ 1 ]
Other (explain)	14%	[ 4 ]

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06 Dec 2010, 11:08 pm

Maybe 17. The first time I ever shared my own thoughts was when I wrote an anti-society blog (was big into anarchism) on myspace.com. It was my first hypergraphic experiences and it was very early in the morning.
Before then I don't even remember having these types of thoughts.
In the last couple of years I've gotten better at it.

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07 Dec 2010, 10:07 am

anbuend wrote:

I only really began fully to kill the impulse to generate phrases a few years ago. But the point at which I started consistently trying was around age twenty.

So I don't mean that I can consistently communicate now. I mean, most of the time I can't. But when I can't, the reason is different now than it used to be. I lose language but I don't revert to saying whatever is plausible and when I do try to communicate I know I shouldn't rattle off just anything. So maybe I didn't explain it enough. If a person is able to describe their inner workings accurately they've probably hit that point. Usually.

I think I understand now. Are you referring to something like 'automatic' responses rather than thought-out, personal responses? IIRC, I was in my mid teens when it occurred to me there was an alternative to, what were for me, scripted answers. I still use the scripts, but they are more of a self-defense/social mechanism now than automatic.

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10 Dec 2010, 1:33 pm

As far as I remember it was in my late teens/early twenties.

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10 Dec 2010, 1:35 pm

constantly? only do it when needed.

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