I have this reporter/podcast host living rent free inside my head to whom I have to give daily interviews to.

Your left brain and your right brain are communicating externally

I think that’s normal if you have an inner voice. I do that too to an extent. However, not everyone has an inner voice. I can’t imagine how life works for these people, but it’s not that rare not to have an inner voice.

You're not talking to yourself, you're crafting a socratic dialogue outloud.

Like I dunno if there is any particular evidence that Plato like, talked to himself aloud in developing his plays... but a substantial amount of the foundation of 'Western' canon is pretty much Plato making up conversations that probably are not verbatim accurate, but work to dramatize and illustrate some kind of tension between characters with different worldviews

You might be trying to find bugs in your own thinking system, rubber ducking it all the time lol

Do you use pronouns for yourself during these conversations and if so, are they first or second person (I vs you)?

Self-gaslighting. I don't know if this is a superpower or a weakness...

So ... Some people's brains are wired with directions being absolute, and some people's brains are wired with directions being relative. One of the easiest ways to tell which way your brain is wired is to switch your mouse to the other hand. If your brain is absolute-wired, then the main button is always on the left; if your brain is relative-wired, then the main button is always the one closest to your body.

If either of your hands is getting sore from clicking with any sort of regularity you should probably mention it to your doctor - it sounds like it could be a repetitive stress injury in the making.

I mouse right handed up to lunch, then left handed after that.

I switched years ago at work for similar reasons. When I carried it over at home, my left-handed partner at the time didn't like it - thought it was confusing to use a left-handed mouse. Go figure

It might help to get a longer mouse so you hand can rest comfortably on it. The soreness probably is not the clicking but the moving-while-tense. I bring my own to work to prevent this.

I do this, except I don't swap the buttons so that I could go back and forth from left to right hand without changing anything. (When I first did it, I swapped the buttons because that seemed more natural but I've since trained myself to use it "backwards" on the left hand.).

I switched to a trackball years ago for this reason. It doesn't necessarily solve the problem just shifts the task to your thumb.

Get work to pay for an ergonomic mouse for you!

When I WFH I use a trackball mouse (ball is in top). Occasionally I forgot to switch and get confused about why som actions are hard

How heavy is your mouse? I switched to a super light corded gaming mouse (wireless mice weight a ton) and has considerably reduced hand fatigue. I also used to use the mouse in my non dominant hand as well.

Legit strategy: a buddy of mine does this to fight tendinitis. I don’t remember if it came from his doctor or from online

Same here. Work mouse is a mirror of home mouse. I started putting it on the left because I use the 10-key a lot. When there was a phone I put it on the left too, so that my right hand (the 10-key hand) would not get confused by the upside down layout of the phone keypad.

At work, mouse and phone (gone now, thank every God) on left, to leave my dominant hand free for the keyboard, basically.

You're like the gym bro reincarnation of Haruhi Suzumiya.

Pacing is definitely good for regulating your thoughts. I like to pace when reasoning through a difficult problem, and it also helps relieve some anxiety.

Speaking of anxiety, watching me pace makes my wife anxious. I understand that, sometimes pacing comes from a place of distress. Other times it's just a way of keeping the body active while the mind is busy. It's often subconscious, but when I catch myself doing it, I'll try to pace in another room so I don't bother anyone.

I remember visiting a really shitty zoo when I was a kid. There was an exhibit with a leopard who spent the whole time pacing along one side of their enclosure. There was a rut worn into the ground that must have been a few inches deep where it passed. I wonder how many thousand times it made the trip from one side to the other - it wasn't very far. That makes me anxious.

i'm so fast that may be confused as a robot

If you do them impossibly fast, you will fail them.

If you happen to be something like a world class CS2 player... you may be 'impossibly' fast.

I feel ya. I have the absolute worst poker face, and I cannot bluff. My uncles all liked to get together and play poker over the holidays, but the one time I was invited it was a bloodbath.

The work people haven't figured this out yet.

... you realize you are almost certainly autistic, right?

I'm in a similar boat. Social deduction games make me very nervous.

Einstein did the same thing.

That being said, I have various clothes because of weather, and generally expend next to no thought on what I wear in as far as people are concerned. It all mostly goes together, so it's just grabbing whatever feels right in the moment with no wrong answers other than weather factor. I probably spend more time thinking about what I'll make for dinner, or how to word a single email to touchy snowflakes.

When I worked in a (casual) office, I did the same. Grey polo shirt, black jeans, every day for about a decade. Now I work from home, freelance, and I wear whatever's clean with much the same result... I don't worry about it.

I do the same, but I have different colors. Like I have the same tshirt in 12 different colors. The same shorts in 5 different colors. The same shoes in 5 different colors. Etc etc. I usually just grab what's on the top, but occasionally have to grab the next thing if it's too mono-color.