I just blurt out "processing" when they start looking at me weird. People tend to take it well.

I read this at first as "I just blurt out "processing" and people look at me weird", which made me smile.

Fair enough, I do like parent’s a bit better, “blurting processing” feels like a too high default setting right after seeing “I’m thinking” :) - not that any of it matters anyways, communicating _something_ gets you there. Rest it just triaging around the edges what people will call you weird for, and if they are, they were going to anyway.