"I" as a word

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When I'm by myself, we refer to ourself in the plural. We feel that this is because we represent the many parts of our personality, and in saying "we," we allow every part a voice.

The rest of the time, we just speak inside our head. Each part of "we" is an "I" voice; so what comes out of our mouth when talking to others is the result of either, one of us taking over, or the collective vote of the whole.

Let us explain:

I am afraid.
I am a child.
I am an adult.
I am aware.
I am creative.
I am impulsive.
I am positive.
I am negative.
I am personally hurtful.

We are me.

I use the word 'I' very frequently. Sometimes in face to face conversation, I will say 'we' when I normally intended to say 'I' or 'they' but couldn't figure out what to say fast enough and wanted to state something without leaving a long delay as that's expected in conversation.

We like this school of thought, it does make sense. Speedy is pleased.

Look back through these posts, and look for how often the word "I" is used. As I understand it, this is common for aspies; we are literally "self centered," and tend to talk mostly about ourselves, our passions, etc.

It's all me, me, me, isn't it?

Sorry, too many word contractions. In normal circumstances, the post would read it is and is it not, but that phrase works out better with the appropriate apostrophies.

I talk about myself, who else can I trust?...

I do notice it, but tend to not use it in some situations. Emails at work are loaded with 'jargonese', and it seems that personal pronouns get left out a lot (I used to agonize over salutations, using Mr or Ms, and people tell me to 'cut it out', even if they're 3 or 4 levels above me. So I just skip the whole thing...

but enough about me...