Do you talk to yourself?

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no. i never talk to myself because i know i will not listen to what i say.
there is a time lag between saying something to myself and me hearing it, and in that time, i will have changed my mind.

my words can not keep up with my thoughts, and if i say something to myself i usually think "yeah yeah old hat". i think today, and i say yesterday stuff.

I totally do. I asked my very NT husband this question, though, and he says he does, too. I wonder if he just does it less?

Yeah it's hard to find someone else worth talking to.
But seriously I've been told I look crazy, with the lips moving and laughing at myself.

I very frequently talk to myself, or just talk out loud in response to a video or something I've read. A lot of people I know find it weird, but I've always thought it was pretty normal. Often times I have conversations that bounce between my mind and out loud, I try to limit that happening when someone else is around.

Yes I talk to myself a lot. I do it at home all the time and because the wall between my place and the neighbour's is very thin, sometimes if I catch myself doing it near that wall, I pretend that I am talking to the cat (as if that makes me come across as normal). I also do it a lot when I am trying to make a serious decision.
I do it in the street sometimes too, but only on "special occasions", such as for example tonight, I saw a dead bird near my front door and I freaked out so I immediately started talking about it because it made me freak out less.

Yes I do it all the time.

i only talk to myself when i ask myself a question.
i rarely ask myself any questions which is unfortunate because i rarely get to talk to myself.

i have so many answers to questions i never asked, and they are stockpiled waiting for me to want to know them.

i am not trying to be cryptic. i know many details about many things that i am not even interested in, and everywhere i look, i calculate the schematic reality of what i am seeing even though i have no interest in what i am looking at.

i am so complacent and torpid in my "passion" for knowledge, that my stock of answers that i have compiled to everything i may one day want to know will rot before i need them.

i sometimes think in words but it is not often. i just see things and i process them and i know them even though i have no desire to know them. like how many led's are in traffic lights, and what level of luminance is required to trip the street lights to come on.

i know how many tiles are on the floor of the local supermarket and i know every crack and bump in every road i have traveled on.

i know how may clackety clacks (thus lengths of track) are between each train station when i am on a train trip i have previously experienced.

i know how many bricks are in the walls of buildings that surround traffic lights that i am stuck at.


most trivial things i learn are not as a result of asking myself a question.

i speak sometimes (rarely) in my mind, but i never talk out loud when i am alone.

oh my gosh i know right... oh it's so great to know i'm not alone on that!! does anyone else here make equations when they see long strings of numbers or even just a digital clock??

Same! And sometimes I forget that other people are around, and they getpso confused that I'm laughing, because I hardly ever laugh if they tell jokes or whatnot.

I used to talk to myself as a kid, but I didn't notice where people were, and it got me in trouble with a few kids quite a few times, so eventually I learned to shut up.

Since the beginning of elementary school I have done this, but a step further. I made up an imaginary character (that I am) and world (based on Earth) with other characters that could help me satisfy my craving for action, adventure, and ultimate purpose. Although my character and world is made up, I made him up and my imaginary world based on other characters/art/games/movies etc. So it's sort of like a huge fictional plaugerism. However, taking other people's inventions or art/movies/game parts helped me visualize it better. I even call some of the things I took for myself by different names and use them with my own desired stories.

As I got older, I went into my realm less. But I still like to do it occasionally when I'm by myself.