Talking to yourself...

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Does anyone else talk to themselves??? I do this constantly. It is very hard for my not to do so in public, but I have gotten very good at keeping my mouth slightly open and then not moving my lips when I talk (and also to whisper. Makes little difference whether or not I move my lips if I don't whisper).

Anyone? Anyone?

I do it a lot at work and at school.

In Junior High I got picked on for talking to myself.

Under what circumstances do you do this
besides being in public? Is it that you lack
communication with others?

Hmmm? What are the underlying issues
going on with you when you do this?

Hmmm?
Ghosthunter

I talk to myself all of the time. Of course, I try to keep it to a wisper or less in public but at home, I am sure if people could hear it, they would swear that I had a roommate.

I sing to myself whenever I think I can get away with it (ie no one within obvious hearing distance). At home I try to keep it quiet, but I think the roommates still hear me through the walls. If I actually talked to them beyond "hello", I'm pretty sure I'd discover they consider me quite crazy.

Constantly. Who else am I gonna talk to?

It's sad, my commounication skills are 10x more developed with myself than with others.

I'm always talking to myself. It's just part of my thinking process. I've done it as long as I can remember. The funny thing is, my whole family does it. My son has a shirt he wears alot. It says, "Please don't interrupt me when I'm talking to myself" - I love that shirt

Yes, I think I just have trouble shutting up. An irresistable urge, I guess. I have talked to myself more in my lifetime than anyone else, and had the most intelligent conversations as well, lol.

I talk to myself constantly as well. And by constantly I mean all day and night. I often “think out loud” about things I am working or obsessing on, or practice monologues, or pathetic speeches I could make to an old girlfriend, “what a better guy I am now” kind of garbage.

There is another thing I do, which I consider a cross between a verbal stim and repetitive behavior. “Self-echolalia” was one term I used to describe it. I make up an odd phrase, in an alternate voice, usually in an American southern or Texan accent. (No offense to any Southrons here, if I didn’t like the accent I wouldn’t imitate it.) My usual joking around voice sounds a bit like Hank Hill. Out of my ramblings I will take a phrase that makes me laugh, then repeat it. And repeat it I do, sometimes hundreds of times a day. I get addicted to the repetition and it takes forever for the stimulus to fade. Months later, the same phrase can still induce laughter. Currently, there is one phrase I have been repeating for over three months.

Unfortunately, I do sometimes speak my phrases in public, along with thinking out loud. This has caused some weird and uncomfortable moments to happen. There have been times when others are around, such as at work, where suppressing the urge to repeat my phrase became very difficult. In those instances, I have said my phrase under my breath, or even sequestered myself briefly in a closet or restroom so I could say it just once at full volume!

I enjoy talking to myself, but too many people interupt my madness.

Yes, I constantly talk to myself. I find the things I talk to myself about a lot more interesting than the few times I talk to others. But some people are good - it's just really hard to find them especially with this syndrome.

I always talk to myself, but it's more common than you think, alot of NT's also do it.

My mom does this alot. I think she might be Aspie, I don't know. N' it's like, she's also kind of moody. So it's like, I just don't ask sort of thing. I don't want to start WW3 or something, heh. I do think it gets kind of annoying though, but I'm working on being less harsh about it with her.

I do talk to myself constantly, but just in my head; too much effort for me to actually vocalize what I am thinking. Speaking is a bit of an effort for me in any case, but if I am very intensly thinking I will speak out loud, but I am almost intelligable at that point