Anyone talk to themselves?

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I talk to myself all the time. If other people are around I try to just do it in my head but I still mumble to myself a lot.

When I'm alone I have conversations with people who aren't there. I rehearse what I want to say the next time I see them, or else I just say things I wish I could tell them but can't find a way to do it in person.

Talking to yourself isn't weird at all, all neurotypicals do it as well, perhaps even more.

My parents do it, and the rest of my family. Apparently it helps with organising thoughts, and I'm guessing because humans are social animals it's a need for communication.

I can't imagine not talking to myself. To me it feels like a very natural thing to do. It helps me to clarify my thoughts and I have conversations with myself all the time. I also talk myself through tasks I need to do and I kind of rehearse talking to other people, practice what I want to say to them.
I don't see anything wrong with talking to myself, I think it helps me to function. But I do realise that other people will think it's weird, so I do try to only do it when I'm alone. Sometimes I do it without realising somebody else is there and the I feel embarrassed, although people don't usually say anything.

I don't think so as it's incredibly common behaviour. I've only noticed people saying it's weird when it's in front of others during a social situation. Or if it's quite frenzied like someone shouting at themselves.

Sometimes, but I only give answers out loud to thoughts that I have, rather than have full conversations.

Yes, absolutely, - often to clear my thoughts, or a replay of a discussion, or I imagine a coming discussion/meeting/whatever.

I notice I talk to myself a lot when I drive, and it's probably because driving is very stressful for me.

It doesn?t mean you?re crazy ?- talking to yourself has cognitive benefits, study finds

all the time...

Yes, for so many of the reasons already posted. It's almost like having an imaginary friend.

I bite my lip in public when it's really bad so I know I'm not forming words and not using any gestures so no one thinks I am hallucinating. At some point in my childhood I developed a habit of "pretending" I was friends with someone I really liked. I know it's all fiction but I now recognize it as a coping mechanism for loneliness and not being able to speak in "real life" to these people. And like so many have said, it actually helps I think with some aspects of "being social." It's like practicing and it's also like practicing sorting out my thoughts and feelings. When I do this with a real person, I often get caught up in their definitions and their interpretation of how I am feeling; I now recognize this as part of alexithymia. Naturally the "imaginary person" understands everything

Me too, it helps when planning what to say in a situation later. Sometimes, if someone hears me I just tell the "oh, just thinking about something else" so they do not think I am in another world, because I'm actually not.

I do... Not as much as when I was younger though. And not in public or with anyone in an earshot (unless they sneak up on me).

Charles

I talk to myself to think clearly. I have so much other stuff in my mind and cannot think clearly sometimes. I have conversations from earlier, songs, and random noises playing constantly. I try not to do it in public but forget sometimes.

I talk to myself when I'm at home on my own. I don't want to be caught talking to myself, which is why if I'm in the middle of talking loudly to myself and I hear a click or a bang, I jump out of my skin because I think somebody's coming in and will think I've gone mad. I know everybody probably talks to themselves when alone but I sometimes go off into a rant about things, as if I'm talking to a vast audience.

I have conversations in my head when out in public. I know probably everybody does but mine get so in depth that I end up making facial expressions or grinning or whatever.

I talk to myself all the time, especially when I am going through a social "dry spell". I once saw this attractive girl looking at me while I talked to myself and I looked at her and said "yeah, I talk to myself: sometimes I need an expert opinion."

me
mostly i talk to myself in bits and pieces of foreign languages i know. i also tend to curse a lot.
when i get really stressed, sometimes it shows up in public, but not often.
^also i can relate to GiantHockeyFan about social dry spell self-talking. ^

I talk to myself a lot, usually to help me focus on my sewing. I will also sometimes talk to myself if I need to vent and have no one else to talk to. I used to have imaginary friends and talked to them a lot, but eventually I stopped when I realized that I was basically just talking to myself. I did go through a phase when I believed that my imaginary friends were real, so it was a little saddening when I realized that I had only been talking to myself the entire time. (This happened at a much later age than I'd care to admit.)