Mel May only realised she was different while reading a news article one day.
โWait, what? Some people hear a voice in their head?โ she thought at the time.
She was stunned to discover that this was not just a figure of speech โ her friends were actually chatting to themselves in their minds.
May, a 30-year-old Australian video producer who lives in New York, remembers trying to explain it to her family.
โMy dad was like, โYou are lyingโ,โ she says.
But her father came around once May started working with psychologists who agreed โ she is one of very few people who lack inner speech.
