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12 Apr 2012, 9:09 pm

AspieOtaku wrote:
I talk to myself in my head all the time I even argue with myself lol.


Self-arguing is fun.. I always win.



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13 Apr 2012, 2:09 am

I go through this as well. I'm always rehearsing and practicing talks in my head because I want to do and say the things. Sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't.



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13 Apr 2012, 2:36 am

I have tendency to think that all this stuff is Normal Behaviour.

Yes, I do speak myself in a head. And make facial expressions and laugh out loud. ... People give "that look" when I do that, which means basicly I'm been looked at "that look" all the time.


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13 Apr 2012, 6:56 am

I do this all the time. The problem is, when I'm angry at someone, the conversation in my head becomes about proving my point right. So I get an insurmountable wave of logic and examples to back up my position. And then I take it to the individual in question...

And they won't play ball. No arguing, no attempt to defend themselves. They just exit the conversation completely.

I have lost more than one friend this way.


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13 Apr 2012, 7:20 am

All the time with me too. I rehearse everything I'm about to say. For instance, this morning, I went over and over what I was going to say to the bus driver, to purchase tickets.

But, I also go over past conversations, which never went as well as I'd hoped. I rewrite them in my head and say into myself what I should have said instead (and how the other person responds), with the intention of getting it right next time, but next time never comes. This is stress related and I find it best to write my thoughts down, if I can't get out of that thought process. WP is a good outlet for that.


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13 Apr 2012, 7:47 am

biribiri20 wrote:
I'm amazed at how many things I can relate to on this forum. This is just another one of them. Really, I think I talk to myself more than anybody, and not because I'm conceited or anything. I do it mostly to script out future conversations I might have or just have in depth discussions about things I know no one else around me would care about.

sometimes all day long, w/ a cast of thousands, i can be alone all day long and talking to my friends in my head and then they come over and i can't get out of that mode and i still have mental conversations w/ them when i could just talk to them.
as for the get stuck on a word or phrase.......or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase or phrase


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13 Apr 2012, 5:17 pm

Feline1982 wrote:
I have tendency to think that all this stuff is Normal Behaviour.

Yes, I do speak myself in a head. And make facial expressions and laugh out loud. ... People give "that look" when I do that, which means basicly I'm been looked at "that look" all the time.


I think you're right about it being normal behaviour, though people who are isolated and in their own world probably do it a lot more than others because others keep themselves busy.