I talk to myself CONSTANTLY

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I regularly talk to myself when I'm alone. I don't do it all the time, but normally when I'm walking around the house, or in the kitchen washing up or cooking. If I'm in the shower I's probably sing some random song instead of talking.

I find myself narrating what I'm doing or thinking. For example I'll say "pick up the cup" as I pick up a cup or "I wonder what's on" as I pick up the TV guide.

It sometimes seems like I'm telling myself what to do, because I say what I'm about to do, but I do make the decision before I tell myself what I'm doing if that makes sense. It is kinda weird that I know what I'm going to do far enough in advance to actually say what I'm going to do. I guess I'm just slow. I do find it strange when I notice this behaviour, but I guess it's harmless enough.

I tend to stop talking to myself when I'm sat down watching TV or using my computer, I guess I don't have an awkward silence to fill when my mind is occupied.

I never talk to myself when other people are around, unless swearing or growling at my computer counts, but I think NT's do that from time to time so it's not an Aspie trait.

I talk to myself a lot as well. When i'm watching tv i make a comment to myself about what's on each channel. it annoys my sister but it's just what i do.

I talk to myself a lot. If I'm in a small group of people, I'm able to stop, but if, for example, I'm walking down a busy street, I really couldn't care less what other people think

I read something somewhere, at some point, which suggested that talking to one's self helps the right and left brain communicate in autism. It certainly seems to help me solve problems, and saves drawing complex diagrams, which, with my coordination issues, I probably wouldn't be able to interpret once I'd drawn them.

I talk to myself all the time. I call it "thinking out loud." I actually can't think to myself or its really hard to. I actually come up with ideas this way but if I tried to think to myself, I would have lost that thought. I know a lot of people associate talking to yourself as schizophrenia. It depends if you are talking to the voices in your head (the auditory hallucinations) or not. If it is silent inside your head, its a good chance that there is no psychotic disorder involved. I hate how people think I have a psychotic disorder (schizoaffective disorder bipolar type to be exact) when I believe I don't. I ain't delusional! I hardly hallucinate! I rarely get disorganized speech/ behavior! No negative symptoms! I like being a realist. People think I am just pessimistic and depressed. Its just more in touch with reality than most people, the world out there is a scary place. I hate always being right about everything. It hurts when thoughts are disrupted by outside sources. When I am thinking to myself or others, then something from the outside such as a noise or movement gets me off course in my thinking processes. Its annoying like my brother.

often, when i'm alone, i will talk as though there are other people in the room. i wouldn't call it talking to myself though, because i actually imagine that there are other people there and that i am having a conversation with them. i have done it for as long as i can remember, but i didn't realize how strange it was when i was younger. as someone mentioned above, it really is a good way to practice dialogue, facial expressions, etc. it became a source of embarrassment when i was in college, because i would often forget how paper-thin the walls in my dorm were, and that my neighbors could probably hear me

I always talk to myself. If people are nearby I usually whisper. I find that I would go crazy if I couldn't talk to myself. I even have full conversations with myself, arguments and interviews. If I am in a situation where I cannot possibly talk to myself, I talk inside my head.

I talk to myself, too. I've been talking to myself for years. Heh, I thought that I was the only guy who talked to himself/herself.

I do it too! If I'm by myself, I do it outloud and if others are with me, I will walk into the other room and do it quietly, but it is constant as well!

I do it. Was worse a few years back during a stressful period when I needed to rehearse stressful conversations with people a lot.

Try walking around with one of those blue tooth cell phone sets. Folks dont have to know that its turned off. You can then talk to yourself all day, even answer yourself, and folks will just that you're a tech savy exec chewing out a subordinate on a business call- and think nothing of it.

I do and in a way, I find it very soothing and therapeutic. I also carry conversations with my cats and they often talk back in their little cat verbalizations which is quite nice and sometimes funny to me.

I think it's just nice that if you have something you need to talk about or vent about and no one to listen, why not talk to yourself? I also understand the stigma or fear of being called a nut or strange for doing this in the presence of others, but nor do others often understand that this is quite simply good mental therapy and stimulus for us. It doesn't have to mean anything is wrong upstairs at all.

I'm always muttering things to myself. It can't be helped. It's habit.

I'm always muttering about my problems too. I guess if I feel I can talk to someone, even if that someone is myself.

I do when at home on my own. I start thinking things through out loud, and sometimes end up ranting so loudly that anyone would think I'm lecturing to a big audience.

I have got caught talking to myself in my house before, and it's so embarrassing. I remember once my dad went out, and I started talking drivel to myself loudly, and he suddenly crept back in because he had forgotten something. I didn't hear him come back in, and I just opened a door and there he was. He looked at me weird and asked who I was talking to, and I had to say my friend phoned.

Sometimes I start getting paranoid irrational thoughts, like thinking people living in my house are actually here when I think they're gone and they are hiding somewhere to see what I do when they're not here, and so I go in all the rooms and check in all the cupboards and wardrobes before I say a word to myself. Then I have to listen to my rational thinking and know that grown people aren't exactly going to be hiding in cupboards or under beds. But you never know....

I know I sound mad but sometimes ranting out loud to myself helps, rather than either keeping it bottled up or ranting to someone who doesn't always want to hear it. I never talk to myself when out in public though, only if I am at home on my own.

I talk to myself to. I do this usually when I'm alone but sometimes I have caught myself walking down the street talking to myself. More like giving myself directions on what I have to do next like first I need to do x, then y and after that z if I have time.

It's called being human, everyone does it. I'd be concerned about anyone who doesn't.