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I talk to myself. I go through phases where I'll do it quite often, even when others are in the room (i'll mumble or whisper or the like)... Speaking my thoughts out loud, hearing them ring out and fade in the air, provides more solid guidance. Makes me feel "real", i guess. I make jokes to myself out loud while talking to people...

When speaking with people my words often become pressured, like I can't get them out fast enough. And the rhythm will often fluctuate quite ridiculously. I'll sometimes pronounce things oddly, too, seemingly spontaneously. My eyes will sometimes become really shifty, scanning the room at apparent random.

My volume level growing up would often be barely a whisper. That, or I'd be unconsciously yelling. I still do that. I used to speak very vaguely to people, or in perceived riddles; they'd have no clue what I meant.

When my head begins to fill to full while talking to people, I'll begin rocking back and forth, bouncing my legs, tapping/drumming with my hands.... In order to concentrate on my thoughts while speaking i'll often pace relentlessly, and I also tend to use hand gestures while speaking to the max. I'll point and swish my pointer finger, i'll dance the others across the air... I'll become flamboyantly dramatic, even, sometimes. People often have a really, really hard time paying attention to what i'm actually saying.

I'm ALWAYS talking to myself, basically. The people I converse with may as well be thin air. I know they're there and I can interact to a point, but I'm always in my own world. I'm surprised most people don't know I have high-functioning autism. But I don't think the general adolescent/young-adult public is well-briefed on HFA, or even autism in general. So yeah. Guess it isn't a surprise. I didn't even figure it out till I was 17. (go figure)

I talk to myself. I go through phases where I'll do it quite often, even when others are in the room (i'll mumble or whisper or the like)... Speaking my thoughts out loud, hearing them ring out and fade in the air, provides more solid guidance. Makes me feel "real", i guess. I make jokes to myself out loud while talking to people...

When speaking with people my words often become pressured, like I can't get them out fast enough. And the rhythm will often fluctuate quite ridiculously. I'll sometimes pronounce things oddly, too, seemingly spontaneously. My eyes will sometimes become really shifty, scanning the room at apparent random.

My volume level growing up would often be barely a whisper. That, or I'd be unconsciously yelling. I still do that. I used to speak very vaguely to people, or in perceived riddles; they'd have no clue what I meant.

When my head begins to fill to full while talking to people, I'll begin rocking back and forth, bouncing my legs, tapping/drumming with my hands.... In order to concentrate on my thoughts while speaking i'll often pace relentlessly, and I also tend to use hand gestures while speaking to the max. I'll point and swish my pointer finger, i'll dance the others across the air... I'll become flamboyantly dramatic, even, sometimes. People often have a really, really hard time paying attention to what i'm actually saying.

I'm ALWAYS talking to myself, basically. The people I converse with may as well be thin air. I know they're there and I can interact to a point, but I'm always in my own world. I'm surprised most people don't know I have high-functioning autism. But I don't think the general adolescent/young-adult public is well-briefed on HFA, or even autism in general. So yeah. Guess it isn't a surprise. I didn't even figure it out till I was 17. (go figure)

I usually either pace (sometimes for a few hours) or talk to myself (again usually for a few hours).

I'll talk to myself to help keep my thoughts in order when I wish to stay focused on one thing. Sometimes it goes from me talking to myself to yelling at God and begging him to tell me why the hell I'm like this, other kids don't go through this kind of stuff, etc.; or I'll start doing voices for my rag doll to help me calm down and/or figure just what the hell is going on in my life.

I'll also fidget and look around the classroom a lot at school. Usually in a boring class.

I talk to myself continually, gives me something to do, many a long journey or slow, boring task has been made a little better by my lecturing myself on some random subject, just a shame I tend to get distracted really easily while I do it, makes it harder to plan things out and such. Though, pacing up and down helps me think more clearly.
I also tap my feet, bounce my leg up and down, I like tapping on things with my finger tips or side of my thumb, sometimes I get distracted by that and do it for quite a while without realising. I also play with my hair a lot when I'm nervous, which is most of the time, and I sometimes moan or similar when I can't think of proper words to say. I generally just fidget a lot, all the time.