I keep talking to myself!

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I talk to myself and my cats when I am alone...I try not to when I am in the presence of someone else....I found that people find it wierd...

I talk to myself alot. Sometimes I go for a drive in the car and talk to myself so nobody will hear me. I think it comes partly from just spending so much time alone. It is also related to a basic fact of spectrum disorders, that we are more in tune with ourselves than are other people (we are introspective introverts), and we are socially disconnected.

Alot of NT's talk to themselves but we clearly do it more (and maybe for different reasons?)

Sometimes I feel like there are two parts of my brain that need to talk to each other, but the connector between the two parts is faulty. So the only way to get the idea over to the other part of my brain is to pass it out through my mouth and back in through my ears.

I do not have voices in my head. Just the opposite: I have very little inner monologue. I can't really think about important stuff unless I say it out loud.

I don't know about the headaches. Maybe they are related just in that you talk to yourself more when you are stressed, and the stress also causes the headaches?

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Generally speaking, I do not talk to myself.

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In the movie - Harry Potter (Sorcerer's Stone) - Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) talks to herself prior to having a Sorting Hat placed on her head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_(film_series)

I talk to myself all the time and I have been doing it as long as I can remember. People have tried to make me feel bad or label me "crazy" for doing it, so I almost always do it alone. Occasionally something will slip out around other people and that really sucks because if Im not paying attention then it is almost certainly something that makes no sense at all.

But I dont care what people think when they hear me, its always been a very positive, and helpful thing for me. Its like strengthening a thought and making it impossible to ignore.

Hey, I talk to myself all the time when I chat on YIM with my friends , and I don't consider myself all that weird.

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Sometimes when I am talking to myself and mom walks in and starts talking to me, I tell her, " I am talking to myself, dont interupt." Of course she knows that I am really joking with her. She jokes back, Ohh pardon me, I dont want to interupt an important conversation.
while rolling her eyes.

She pretty accepting of my autism except when it comes to executive function problems...she gets annoyed then but I talked to myself all of my life...sometimes I will carry on more than one side of a conversation...I guess to role play my social interactions to help me predict how to address a conversation with someone.

This is a question I see a lot on here. A lot of Aspies do it from what I've read from this and other topics. I as well do it. I'll talk to myself in the shower or at home alone. Sadly at times family will catch me and say what were you saying? Me: Uh nothing. LOL! I tend to talk about what I'd tell my Psychology teacher to apologize to her. How would I explain my behaviors (not out and saying AS) I'm talking explain myself. Some examples.

Well the reason I interact with teachers is you are fun to be around and that's how I learn+ my family does X ((list all the threats etc.) I also ask you questions so I can learn more and before you say Google that's not as helpful and I like it when you teach it since you make Psychology understandable. BTW I'm not suicidal I just found the topic interesting did you know someone commited suicide over the death of Albus Dumbledore also people wanting to kill themselves over New Coke not to mention people jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Also about laughing on 9/11 there's something called grief stricken laughter and the reason I laughed is X etc.


I could go on but this is pretty much it run through my head what I'd say to her etc.

I'm trying to stop talking to myself or comment my actions because people think I'm talking to them

Same here

I used to talk to my computer at work and everyone thought it was funny, but usually I only think aloud in public with things like, "Where was that [soup, book, etc.] again?"

I talk to myself *all the time* when alone. I'm my own best company for conversation.

As for the headaches, could the-over-analyzed be right? Are you stressed at the time?

This may well be what is actually happening, the two parts being the right brain and left brain. The 'connector between the two parts' is the corpus callosum, and there have been recent studies that suggest that when this is malformed in some ways the result has the same appearance as autism. Lookup "Agenesis of the corpus callosum"

(It may be the same thing, just approached from different directions. That is you either start with a brain scan, find a defect, and then note the symptoms appear to result from that defect, or you start with a load of symptoms and go looking for a common cause for them)

Symptoms of ACC include:
Delay in achieving motor, language, and cognitive milestones
Poor motor coordination (movement e.g. walking or throwing a ball)
Increased sensitivity to stimulation such as food textures and touch
High tolerance to pain
Difficulty with complex tasks, such as using language in social situations, complex reasoning, creativity, and problem solving
Limited sophistication of humour
Difficulty imagining the potential consequences of behaviour
Immature play for age
Problems in social situations such as making inappropriate comments
A lack of awareness of the thoughts and feelings of others
Difficulty starting conversations and keeping conversation flowing
Difficulty identifying what a speaker is feeling from their tone of voice or facial expressions
Difficulty distinguishing between lies and sarcasm
Difficulty in relationships with others, such as emotional give and take
Limited insight into their own behaviour

Sound rather familiar?




This is very interesting. I sometimes wish I had that, I just can't seem to make any decisions at all most of the time.
You should probably look into/read The origin of conciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind by Julian Jaynes, as what you describe matches very well with his theory. The forum on that site may be of interest.

It's basically about the remnants of humanities previous state of conciousness resurfacing.
It sounds really useful if it actually provides good instructions and contextual information rather and should only be considered a problem like Schizophrenia if it is voices in your head that you can't disagree with telling you to do 'bad' things which you are then forced to obey.

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I know this post is four years old, but it is a big "click" for me. I've been trying to work out what's going on when I need to translate my thoughts into language so I can more easily access them as language later.

I have an extremely limited inner monologue, and I don't even really consider it real thought. It's more like ... just my verbal memory or something. When I'm actually thinking, I'm thinking entirely in images/sounds/smells/touch/taste, and sometimes translating this into speech or text.

I cannot stop talking to myself, or the imaginary people inside my head I am constantly debating (they help me figure out things).

How is that for crazy?