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1Independent Researcher, Chengdu, China.
Abstract:
This paper introduces Dialogical Inner Voice Personification (DIVP): a formless, persistent inner dialogue partner that emerges spontaneously in childhood, operates through linguistic turn-taking, and is experienced as part of the self. Drawing on eight autoethnographic interview sessions conducted with an AI research assistant and corroborated by parental accounts, the author - a 14-year-old gifted bilingual student (CAT4 Non-verbal SAS 131, 98th percentile; Spatial SAS 139, 99th percentile) - traces DIVP's phenomenology and developmental trajectory from early childhood to adolescence, situating it within five intersecting literatures: inner speech development, imaginary companions, Dialogical Self Theory, giftedness and overexcitability, and non-pathological voice-hearing. Each accounts for a component in isolation; none captures the configuration that arises when all five converge. The paper maps this convergence point, proposes a dual-overexcitability mechanism (intellectual × imaginational) as a candidate explanation, and examines the clinical risk of misdiagnosis in gifted children reporting such experiences.
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