Does anyone here almost not speak at all?

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I'm a college student, and I talk to my parents fairly often on the phone.

About a year ago, though, I realized that I almost don't talk at all to people in "real life".

I have a regular enough schedule that I can count all the words that I say in a typical week. I typically say a minimum of 109 words/week (all of which are required to get food). At maximum, I say about 150 words/typical week. That's less than 1.4 words per hour of being awake.

Does anybody else almost not talk at all?

Sounds like me in high school. I would talk very little. Never for conversation. It was more likely a 150 words a day so not quite as sparse as you.

It depends. Some weeks I probably say less than 100 words. When circumstances warrant it, I sometimes talk a lot more.

So true.

I talk to my mom for ten minutes or so every day, but that's it.
It was the same in college- I didn't speak to anyone, and no one spoke to me.

I tend to not speak at all for long bouts of time and then talk a lot when I see friends - which leads to my throat hurting since I don't talk a lot when I'm on my own.

Days that I don't see my group of people (or avoid seeing them, since I tend to try and keep my privacy way more than most people) I can count the amount of words I say and it usually numbers less than 50 or so...

But as far as the amount of words a week you're talking about, that sounds exactly like me in High School. Then again, I had so few friends in HS and spent most of my time bored by how easy the classes were, reading and pursuing my own studies...

Does it count if I speak and I don't like it?

My word count would be very high. But it's mostly because I must speak because of my job. It can be very aggravating. Sometime I just want to scream leave me the f**k alone. Then I appear cranky to my coworkers. Oh wait. I AM cranky.

I talk to my husband and kids regularly. My oldest has social anxiety so even though I'm an extrovert and he's an introvert (MBTI-wise), we both appreciate that we can sit in silence. My aspie son, also a MBTI extrovert, needs the audio reassurance so he will talk about his interests to feel that connection with me or my husband. It's really interesting how we use communication. It's different than how NTs use it. In social situations, I'm quiet. I'm involved in a special interest group and they are very happy when I say something. They know I'm nice but quiet and only one of them knows why I'm quiet so they're pleased when I do say something.

I don't speak at all conversationally, but I do type to people. But I hate language. Really hate language. I can go through my entire day not understanding a word of what anyone's saying, and often they don't even notice that I don't understand, because I rely on everything besides language.

Not a word (except the odd muttering to myself) for five days out of seven, unless I get an unexpected call from my sister with some computer problem. (family technical support )
Day six has some work-related chat, but not much.
Day seven is supermarket checkout-related chat (and that's as brief as I can possibly manage!).

It all happens in text, and that's the way I like it.

I probably actually talk to people for at most 3-4 hours in a given week. One hour of that is with my therapist. The rest is incidental communication with my family, and some weeks it can be at most two hours for the entire week.

There are a lot of times I really dislike speech entirely, and fewer (but still frequently enough) that I'm not enamored of language (but I spend enough of my time using it online, so oh well).

I talk to myself a lot, but that's more like a cognition aid than speech in the sense of speech. It doesn't really use the same processes as verbal communication, if that makes sense - the same mechanics, perhaps. I can use typing for a similar process, however. Both serve as a means for me to actively translate my nonverbal thoughts into language.

Sort of as a side thing, I find myself really wishing I could search for things on google by image or sound instead of words... Damnit.

I speak very little. I speak a few sentences at most whenever I have a conference call for work just to give my status. I speak to my SO a bit during the few hours in the evening that he's home and not sleeping, but even that's not really a lot. I mostly listen to what he has to say. Maybe a couple times a month I'll monologue to him.

When I was in school, I was definitely like you.

Until the past year or so, I barely spoke at all.

If I wasn't married, I doubt I would talk very much at all as I rarely talk to my parents. I don't know if I would even be alive if it wasn't for my wife.

I talk to my family a lot. But there have been days when I would go hours without saying a single word, especially in middle and high school.

I barely speak at all, even to my family, I haven't spoken to a single person who isn't family in more than three weeks...

yes,most definetly people are lucky to get 1 word a day out of me, exept for my imediate family
(but then again i have selective mutism so that might not count)