Learning that some people don't have internal monologues, can't envision things in their mind, don't understand hypotheticals or their purpose—shit like that is blackpilling. I've been starting to wonder if a large chunk of the human race is born sentient but nonsapient. It's not really made me lose faith in humanity, but it is troubling.
Dunning-Kruger is real. The reality is a good portion of the population falls squarely into 95-105. Now consider this, if you move 1 degree right on the bellcurve at 120, there is as much difference in cognitive processing between you and the average as the average have over a Forrest Gump. It becomes even more true the further a person moves right on the scale, a 140 is as distant from the average as the average is for someone at 60 (who cannot speak and lacks the ability to wipe their own ass).
What this means is that if you are above, at some point you're going to come to the realization that you do think differently. If you're lucky, you come to the conclusion that you have, that a lot of people lack an internal monologue, or are unable to process the way you do, and can't understand that you do. If you're unlucky (like most people), you assume the reason that you think differently is that there is something inherently wrong with you, which ends up with you second guessing yourself and fucking yourself over. It is where our instinct to be part of the group fucks with our reason.
My opinion is this is why a lot of dumb and middling people are self assured and over-confident and a lot of smarter people are mentally fucked and second guess themselves. An average person can sit in a room and have 60% of the people around them and have it confirmed that their way of thinking is the way of thinking for most people. Anyone outside of this (smart or dumb) either becomes aware or is made aware that they think differently than the majority but really not understanding the reason as to why they think differently, subconsciously putting them in an outer group. Essentially the average have the way they think confirmed constantly, where anyone outside that average is going to be challenged (by both themselves and the majority) if they are noticeably outside of what the group consensus is.
I know this is all psychobabble to most people, after leaving the military and before I switched to safety and security in mining I did a degree in Occupational Therapy and worked for 2 years in Neuro rehabilitation. Teaching people how to redo things, or new ways to do them, after a stroke, brain damage or other form of neurological condition. Some people would pick things up really quickly, learn reasonably quickly and understand why something was being done a certain way. Some would even get ahead of you, pre-emptively understanding where you were going and what needed to be done. Most however, would fight you every step of the way, because they didn't understand what was being done, they couldn't comprehend that the neurological injury had fundementally changed the way they needed to approach life, and they resented having to approach things in a different way than they always had. They were confident in their way of viewing problems and the world and despite a lifechanging injury they would steadfastly refuse to change (even if it meant condemning themselves to a life as a sentient bedshitting cripple) because they'd always had that group consensus that they thought correctly and didn't need to change a thing. That fucking mindset, it just ensures somebody remains feeble and crippled, but you can't shake people off of it.
It was this type of thing, and thinking about this type of thing, which forced me to change careers. You have a narrow window of time to start recovery from a neuro injury, and it was depressing to see so many people fuck that up because they'd locked themselves into a way of thinking and approaching problems that they refused to deviate from because up until that point in time they'd been rewarded by society for being and thinking like everyone else. Once you start seeing that all the time in your work, you start seeing it elsewhere, which just turned me jaded and cynical.
Hopefully this explains that difference a little, this isn't academic, just on the job observation. It is also the reason I have no faith in people as a group, but still have faith in humanity, because for every 10 assholes in that job who refused to do anything to get better you'd have 1 person come along an defy expectation.
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