From what I've seen, there are -probably- around a hundred mental types in the social strata I spend most of my time in, maybe two hundred on the high end. I'd hazard a guess that there are probably five hundred to a thousand mental types overall. I've encountered only a handful - four or five - minds I've not seen repeated, which I internally translate to "exceptionally rare". I've met exactly one person whose mind was remotely similar to my own; they had suffered brain damage, and I didn't know the person before to ascertain whether or not the similarity was a result of the brain damage or not.
following on from:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/dr/generalizing_from_one_example/
I am quite sure in my experience that at some point between the ages of 10-15 I concluded that; "no the rest of the world does not think like me, I think in an unusual way".
This idea disagrees with the typical mind fallacy (where people outwardly generalise to think everyone else has similar minds to their own).
I suspect I started with a typical mind model of the world but at some point it broke badly enough that I re-modelled on "I just think differently to most others".
I wanted to start a new discussion; rather than continuing on from one in 2009;
Where do your experiences lie in relation to typical minds?