I dunno how it worked, but I went much of my childhood without an inner voice. Didn’t seem to hinder me at all. One day I played around with imagining my thoug

I dunno how it worked, but I went much of my childhood without an inner voice. Didn’t seem to hinder me at all. One day I played around with imagining my thoughts as a voice in my head. Kept it up for a few more days. When I tried to stop, found I couldn’t, not entirely. Had one ever since. I still wouldn’t say my inner voice forms my words for speech or much of my writing, even now. If I consider what I might say ahead of time, yes, if I’m just talking, no. And of course if I think about it (as I am now) then it gets more involved in that process.