Saying Everything You Think Out Loud

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I've not seen this listed as an ASD trait, but is it? Most of the time I will just say whatever I am thinking, not for the purpose of starting a conversation, but just cuz I need to get it out. It's as if I need to hear the words in the air or something.

Some examples:

"Oh, I just dropped my pen."
"I really wanna eat some potato chips right now."
"I'm cold."
"This shirt is really itchy."

Does anyone else do this? I thought everyone did until my brother asked me one day why I did it.

I'm not sure but I've heard that some aspies do think aloud. I don't.

A friend of mine once commented that I say things other people only think about, and I would say I do that for a variety of reasons. In some cases, I just miss the consideration of just keeping a particular thought to myself, but in many cases I truly need to audibly hear something for myself in order to further ponder and process it ... and overall, that is part of how I try to identify reality while continually feeling as if I am living in some kind of dream. Apart from that, I might likely end up believing I could actually fly or something!

Yes, my inner monologue tends to be outer much of the time. I'm always thinking out loud. I seem to process the information better when I hear it.

"That was interesting."

That's completely different for me. I would never speak what I think and I have a great dissatisfaction with those who do. I have in mind trivial matters here, mostly feelings or social stuff. It is like they pollute the air with completely useless and personal information. Most of the time I do not even know what I feel or the feeling is so odd, out of place and intense that verbalising it would make me feel abnormal, I have no words or cultural frames to express this. I wouldn't even think to myself what my needs are or how something would make me feel - as if it's irrelevant somehow.. Huh, I hope that makes sense. Maybe my mind is usually occupied with various theories and searching for patterns and connections; I try not to involve myself in my thoughts as such (which is not to say that I do not think about myself). I do very poorly w/ verbal information..

If I said everything I thougt a loud I would drop dead from exhalation, as I'm thinking constantly, far faster than I can physically speak. However I do have a occasional tendacy to say certain things I think a loud, when I'm thinking "harder", if that makes any sense, and I'm not controlling myself, or when some part of my subconscious wants people around me to know what I'm thinking even though I know I sound like I'm crazy and/or no one cares.

I like to say out loud things I think of, or tell people it. That tends to put them off, because it's not something they care about in the slightest. Like me going to my mom and commenting, "I like this new razor I'm using. It has this soap stuff around it so it's self-lathering."...and that was all I wanted to tell her. I do stuff like that all the time. I tell myself to shut up and not say it, since it doesn't make any sense TO go around telling people it, but it's like...I want to share it, and I can't help but to want to share it, and so I do.

Apparently I was late to start talking but when I started pretty much would narrate everything I was doing e.g. "I'm putting some peas on my fork. I'm going to eat them now. I'm moving the fork to my mouth. I just ate the peas. Now I'm going to eat some meat. I'm cutting the meat..."

After about a year, I am told, I went back to just being quiet most of the time. I think that might have been the point at which I realised that there was more to talking to other people than just saying what was in your head.

These days I still narrate a little ... but not as much.

I don't know if it's an Aspie thing or not, since what you wrote describes my mum, and she's NT. Even she she is talking and then sees something on the telle she would stop what she's saying just to comment on the thing on the telle then go back to what she was saying. That irritates me.

But anyway, it might be an Aspie thing to keep saying different things every 5 seconds, like say if everyone is sitting around a table and you keep saying these random little sentences every 5-6 seconds, and nobody's really listening to you or they're getting annoyed. That could be an Aspie thing. But sometimes people say things like, ''oh, I just dropped my pen'' or something.

A bit off-topic here but I want to say this - but don't you hate it when people in a room are talking about something fun and interesting and humourous and easy or interesting enough for you to join in, and then somebody suddenly utters ''I'm tired'' (not meaning to change the subject), and then the subject changes all of a sudden onto being tired by someone else saying, ''yeah I'm tired'' then someone else saying, ''yeah, I felt so tired last night before I got into bed....'' and then presto - the subject has changed, and you know you can't really change it back now. That annoys me so much!

I don't, sometimes I even forget to say something out loud when I should. A person will say hello and I'll say hello back but after they've passed I'll realize I only said hello in my head.
I know someone with strong AS traits who never stops talking. After a certain point I want to scream. I try to make white noise out of her voice but her voice has an edge to it that's hard to ignore.

Oh yes, I say what I think about very frequently. I make random comments out of nowhere to anyone I'm comfortable around.

I just remembered, when I was younger, when I coughed or sneezed, I would say my action afterwards. In front of my classmates... Luckily quirkiness was valued, or I would've been embarrassed.

I also speak to myself a lot. I don't know why, but if I have thoughts I consider particularly noteworthy or interesting, I feel the need to say them out loud. It doesn't matter if people hear them or not, I just like knowing they now exist outside of my head.

i'm kind of the opposite