Do you talk to yourself?

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One thing I've recently found out I do a lot is talk to myself. I don't actually have conversations with myself, but I'll... I don't really know how to say it. It's like I'll imagine having conversations with other people and whisper both parts of the conversation out loud without realizing it. Turns out, other people have eyes and ears too, and they can totally see and hear me when I do this, so I've been trying to stop but it's a lot harder than you might think. Does anybody else do this?

I talk to myself all day, everyday. I will whisper both sides of the conversation exactly how you describe. I have trouble thinking without speaking aloud, though whispering suffices. I have a lot of repetitive conversations/verbalized thoughts with myself throughout the day.

I have know that I was different my whole life, back since I was a child, that my peers didn't behave or share the same thoughts as I did. A portion of my thoughts are vocal stims(I stim vocally mostly instead of physical stims), repeating names or phrases to calm me down, or describing fantasy worlds in my head which I use to cope with stress, another portion is going over unresolved conflicts over and over, some involving problem solving and the rest related to whatever I am doing at the time (watching tv, interacting with my parents, playing video games, completing tasks that need to get done etc).

Yes lol, I always have. I have to watch it when I'm at work because I'll talk to the computer screen or grumble to myself over an email or something.

Yes. It helps me think. Sometimes I have whole debates with myself. Sometimes I think what I should have said, and say the part I should've kept in my head. I really should invest in a hand-free to wear at all times, so as to not look like a madman.

Yep, wildly talk to myself all the time and I have to watch it. That's probably one among other things that exposed me as a weird person to have around from an early age, in NT speech. Also I make gestures while thinking and talking to the air.

For what it's worth, that's what psychologists termed "rumination". You don't really always converse to yourself, you just pick one regretful scene from the past or an hypothetical situation and start "groaning" on stuff up to the point those thoughts become awfully unbearable, almost like if they were real. Then you anxiously hope that people around weren't listening to you.

I suggest you take a look into meditation and give it a go. Helps me a lot. Not Transcedental Meditation, just plain old Yoga breathing techniques will do.

Yes, all the time. It's comforting.

I talk to myself, I talk to imaginary people who don't exist, I talk to fairies who I believe do exist. I pace around for hours every day, babbling incoherently. It helps me to process my thoughts.

(I'm currently being screened for schizophrenia, because my symptoms are bordering on delusional.)

yes, and to any tools I happen to be using, especially when I am studying. I find it helps me to understand what I am doing.

Yes full conversations about whatever is on my mind. I have done it since I was a kid and I have been caught many times. My parents learned to accept it and laugh but when your boss does it's kind of hard to explain.

Nope.

Oh yes. It's one of the reasons I live alone. If I can't talk to myself I feel repressed. It's not the kind of thing I feel comfortable doing around other people because most of them think it's weird and sometimes I talk about things that are private. I'm so comfortable talking to myself at home I have to watch that I don't do it in public or if I have guests.

Yes, I talk to myself a lot.

Yes! I have conversations to myself, as if I'm talking to a crowd or a specific person. I'm pretty good at not doing it in public places but sometimes I get caught and it's embarrassing. One person was like: "Do you need to see someone?" when they overheard me once. Yeah. Awkward.

I just find it comforting. It's super easy to do with yourself but with anyone else, it's difficult. Even those you are close with there's still a little resistance or tension, because I feel very vulnerable when socializing.

I'd barely talk at all otherwise...

Quite often, but only in privacy of home. Find it helps in thinking things over.

I'm with you. I'm very fluent when I talk to myself. Not so much around other people, not even my closer friends.