Think out Loud?

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I do this all the time, talking to myself...or to my cat. Trying to predict or talk out situations that will happen in the near future mostly. I do this often when walking or driving my car. Anyone else do this?

Yep all the time especcially when Im trying to work out my homework situation (or something like that) and preferbly when Im alone (though I sometimes just whisper to myself when someone else is with me.)

I do this all the time. Especially if I'm going to be talking with another person or in a social situation. If I'm calling somewhere for some reason I'll sit there for 15 minutes going over and saying what I'm going to say during the conversation. I do this because I know that I won't be able to handle the situation very well on-the-fly like a normal person would. If I were just to make a cold call I would barely be able to make sense to the other person. The planning reduces my anxiety because I'm prepared. I do it out-loud because I believe in testing under actual "live" circumstances.

Yup. And talk to the cat. OK, converse with the cat, speaking for both sides. OK, so i'm insane.

I talk to the cat all the time.

I also talk aloud, ad people think i'm talking to them, I just say I was talking to myself.

Well, I wouldnl't say that I think out loud, but sometimes my lips move when there's no sound coming out. Anyone else do this?

Yes, I do. I also whisper to myself sometimes.

I didn't even realize I did this until a couple of years ago when I noticed people passing me on the street were staring at me like I was a freak.

ALL the time. Every day of the week. Doesn't matter where I am. I am sometimes disruptive when I do it in school but oh well.

I do this all the time, often "playing" the voice of someone else [usually someone who has upset me and with whom I am in confrontation] in my head and answering their "voice" out loud. It is a form of rehearsal and I will go through all the possible variations I can consider. Generally I speak out loud when I am alone, but with others present I just move my lips and whisper under my breath.

Also when NTs use incorrect grammar in discussion with me, I will "translate" their incorrect speech in my head and repeat the correct grammatical form under my breath and then act on that correct statement or question. I learned long ago they do not like you to correct them out loud! They are awfully touchy!

Jim Crawford.

heh

x2 on the moving lips count. I plead guity and move to dismiss.

all the time.

and i still make no sense, sometimes, even to myself. i have rows with myself, people...

We've known for a while now.

GO CHEW ON A MUNCHKIN!! !! ! ((That was supposed ot be an insane-sounding insult))

And yeah, I do the lip-moving thing too.

Yes, SO MUCH of the time I do this. I had also noticed that I did this a little too noticeably in the grocery store when I am alone and shopping. So now I have learned to whisper (woohoot!) and to barely move my lips. And if I pass a person, I hold onto my comment until I'm out of ear range.

I do this also while I'm walking on campus. But I believe I am quite good and keeping it quiet enough, stopping when someone passes me, and not moving my lips-- much like a ventriloquist. At least to this point in my life no one has mentioned it to me. I guess I have to take that as I am successfully hiding my self-directed comments as best as can be asked without totally getting rid of them altogether. And getting rid of them would be UNTHINKABLE! Pah!

This is something I would like to get rid of.

I have to say, I often re-run arguments I've had and take them off at a tangent. I also seem to do new ones as well, reacting out loud to comments that people I know either have said or could reasonably be expected to day.

It can actually get me quite stressed and angry. I tend to keep a lid on it when out and about, but I do get caught out from time to time, particularly when stressed. I have also been known to 'pull facial expressions', which have earned a few unfavourable comments from time to time. This is noticeable in the workplace, if I let my thoughts wonder and inadvertently say something.

At home, I consider it reasonable to just be myself, but that can be a mistake too. A 'friend' (read, clingy freeloader after free board and lodging), who was staying gratis in my flat for an unspecified period of time while I was at college often commented on behaviours such as grinding my teeth in my sleep (how would I know I did that?), facial expressions with no apparent external stimuli, tensing up for no apparent reason and either muttering/whispering or saying things to myself.

This 'friend' ensured quite a reputation against me by making sure that everyone else knew about it. No wonder I was considered a 'freak' and a 'weirdo' by the rest of them!

I think one of the correct terms for these things is 'internal dialogue', but with most people, they do not spill out into physical expression.