[mysterydip]

When you say you think in words, does that mean like you see printed words like a page of text? Or just audible words?

[edgyquant]

It’s really hard to describe, but not even audible words. Just the idea of words, I have to actually speak to hear the words.

[zie]

Not the person you asked, but for me: "audible". i.e. my thoughts are an inner voice.

[rectang]

I don’t have aphantasia, but I do think in an audible stream of words.

This has led to an odd quirk in my experience as a software developer: I hate keywords or variable names that don’t have an obvious pronunciation, like “fn”. They interrupt the stream and make me stumble in a way that doesn’t seem to afflict people who appear to experience written words as grouped glyphs without hearing them.

(I’ve chosen to read “fn” as “effin” as a puerile expression of resentment.)