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>I used to think people who don't have an "inner monologue" are fucking retarded but I slowly came to realize most of the people who do, literally cannot fathom self-awareness or nontrivial abstract thought without words.
A functioning brain can handle all methods of thinking.
In some cases internal monologues (or dialogues) are preferred, for instance when you mentally prepare arguments you want to hear it out loud and argue the case multiple ways with pushback.

In other cases visiospatial thoughts are more relevant, like when you are folding cubes mentally, doing some math problems or want to visualize a construction.

In other cases it can be easier to handle thoughts like objects. You think of a problem, and you have an abstract space that has all of the characteristics of it. For instance that you want to cook food, you combine multiple senses for the object which is the final delivery or enjoyment of the meal and all steps and components leading there are part of that "object".

There are more ways ofc to think as well, but these are just three different ways that you can classify thoughts and one does not exclude the other. Even though I understand some people can't into visiospatial intelligence, some can't have inner monologues/dialogues or even think based on a set of feelings.

A working brain should be open to all these methods, and if it isn't that just means you are cognitively lacking.
Similar in a way to lacking a set of limbs.
Not everyone can run a Swedish mile or do 100 pushups.
It's just that when those features are lacking in the brain it isn't instantly obvious, just like the lack of awareness inside an LLM.