Am I the odd one out? When I was young, my mother recognised that my mind was often "noisy", and she taught me to quieten those thoughts so I could focus. I assumed this was a normal sort of thing to be able to do, and I just had to learn because I didn't have the knack naturally.

It's not that the thoughts are like notifications, more like they fade out, a bit like traffic noise, so I suppose it's not quite silence, but it becomes just background that no longer impinges on you awareness. I won't pretend it's like that all the time, but it feels pretty natural.

[–] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most people can learn to do this to some degree. And starting early helps. But for some, it's impossible.

[–] notabot@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

As far as I was aware, being able to is a fairly normal neurotypical trait, and not being able to do it easily was more associated with ADHD, which is what my original comment was supposed to be inferring. I may be very wrong about that though, and my comment certainly didn't go over well. I hope I did not offend anyone with it, and appologise to anyone reading this who I did offend.