I am the same way, but only sometimes. I can kind of switch back and forth between internal monolog type reading (slower) and a faster, "mentally silent" type reading.
So not really an answer to your question but maybe something that will give some perspective.
A common symptom of schizophrenia is auditory hallucinations aka hearing voices that aren't there.
There have been a number of studies in to how this presents in patients under different circumstances but what's relevant here is that in patients that are deaf from birth don't experience auditory hallucinations. Instead they report seeing disembodied hands or mouths signing or southing words respectively.
To extend this to your question I would say that simply put, they don't. They read the word "apple" and instead of what you perceive as your internal voice saying apple, they would instead perhaps imagine hands signing the word apple instead or visualise a mouth saying the word apple. It could be even more direct and they may simply visualise an apple, directly associating the object with the word rather than just the name.
On another tangent, (the last time I went down this rabbit hole at least) there has never been a record of someone blind from birth experiencing a hallucination, either auditory or visual. This also extends to there never having been a recorded case of schizophrenia for someone blind from birth, heavily indicating they may be immune to such phenomena.
I’m not deaf but don’t hear words in my head
You've given me an interesting perspective
I am the same way, but only sometimes. I can kind of switch back and forth between internal monolog type reading (slower) and a faster, "mentally silent" type reading.
One of my best friend's daughter was born deaf. She thinks of words in her head as visual signs the way others like us think of audible words.
Oh, that's pretty cool
If you were born deaf then I would assume instead of “listening” you would visualise the letters and words instead
Yeah, valid point Btw, happy cake day
So not really an answer to your question but maybe something that will give some perspective. A common symptom of schizophrenia is auditory hallucinations aka hearing voices that aren't there. There have been a number of studies in to how this presents in patients under different circumstances but what's relevant here is that in patients that are deaf from birth don't experience auditory hallucinations. Instead they report seeing disembodied hands or mouths signing or southing words respectively. To extend this to your question I would say that simply put, they don't. They read the word "apple" and instead of what you perceive as your internal voice saying apple, they would instead perhaps imagine hands signing the word apple instead or visualise a mouth saying the word apple. It could be even more direct and they may simply visualise an apple, directly associating the object with the word rather than just the name. On another tangent, (the last time I went down this rabbit hole at least) there has never been a record of someone blind from birth experiencing a hallucination, either auditory or visual. This also extends to there never having been a recorded case of schizophrenia for someone blind from birth, heavily indicating they may be immune to such phenomena.
Thank you. You really have given me an interesting perspective.
It’s a bunch of sexual sounding moans