> It always amazes me how people's minds can be so fundamentally different.

we encountered this when we learned about the difference between autistic and non-autistic minds. one of the reasons why autistics behave the way they do is because the connection structure in their brain is different enough that they literally, actually, do not experience "thought" in the same way that neurotypical people do. the same is true in reverse - for autistics, neurotypical people experience thought in such a fundamentally different manner that it's basically impossible for one to imagine what metacognition might feel like from within a non-autistic brain. it's just not something you can really fathom at all

source: we are the autistic, hehe