Do you mumble words aloud when thinking about them, etc.?

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I think this might also be associated to my tendency to talk to my self(well, it definitely is).
I was reading about Autistic Tics and Tourettes(SP?) Syndrome(I know I definitely don't has Tourettes, I just enjoy reading about things) and at some point it talked about Vocal/Verbal Tics. I can't remember all of them but there was echoleila(SP?) which, iirc, is where you repeat what the participant in a conversation just said, something beginning with C where you would randomly say taboo or socially unacceptable phrases(if I also recall correctly, 10% of people with Tourettes have this) and another one where you repeated what you were reading.
This is obviously very brief... don't quote me on it and if anyone wants to correct me on the spellings and everything else I've got wrong please do.
But basically, I'm just wondering what the prevalence of such vocal tics is. I often will mutter certain words and numbers quite a lot, like when I'm stressed I'll feel a compulsion to either write down the number '3' or say it and sometimes I'll be reading and can't actually comprehend what it's saying(I'll forget the word prior to the present word I'm on) so I'll say some words aloud and it makes a lot more sense(this is only around a lot of people who are talking) and sometimes I'll be talking to my self(I sometimes talk to my self while reading, IDK how) and I'll mutter certain words and they could be anything really from a sentence, so for example, say if I just said that sentence, I might say 'mutter' aloud unintentionally.
This a horribly constructed post with a lot of things incorrect, I know and guessed, but I'd still like to hear people's experience on the spectrum to see if it's related with my diagnosis of Asperger's(sometimes I doubt it so that's why it's 'diagnosis of AS' as opposed to 'AS'... if anyone was actually wondering) or something unique, etc.
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Yes..all the time...all kinds of stuff...maybe not exactly as you describe but in my own way.
I have nonsense phrases that I will repeat over and over...I refer to them more as vocal stims than tics. I can get stuck on certain phrases that are actual words and go on tangents of repeating them...like people....peoplepeoplepeoplepeoplepeople...and so on...in addition to average run-o-the-mill talking to myself that I do constantly..to the point where I am often unaware that i am doing it.
And I am also a singer in public...due to the constant barrage of one part of a song that is always stuck in my head...it changes or switches back and forth and shifts over time...but it is a constant...right now it is the song sung by the melancholy French Doll in the Raggedy Ann movie But I have been singing mostly "Brother Can You Spare A Dime" for the last week or so...

I voted yes.
its hard to describe. it can be words from what I'm reading, thinking out loud or calling out random things I see like names of animals etc.
I do it alone or round people but its not like tourettes. I also tell myself to "shut up now" sometimes if I'm talking to myself and going towards people at work. I work in a warehouse so can be on my own for a while then near people.

When I think about something.... like my dog, for example..... I will blurt out the name of my dog......something like "Ousca-doggie-dog" perhaps.... I used to have three little white dogs, so the names were never the same depending on who I was thinking about. My teenage daughter calls me "random" because I do things like this all the time. The funny part is that SHE does it, too!! I also get stuck on songs and jingles and can't stop singing them or humming them or whistling them. I will also do the same thing with sounds. I might do things like blurt out a "wabba-wabba-wabba" sound for no good reason. I can control it in serious situations, but it takes effort. When I am relaxing and at ease, the weird stuff just flows when it needs to.

I have a couple of words that seem to just fall out of my mouth with no connection to what's going on around me -- although more often when I'm tired or stressed. I also have involved daydreams where I may write entire sections of stories in my head and will sometimes mouth the dialog more-or-less silently. Sometimes I'll repeat back lines of dialog from television. Of course, I talk to myself all the time.

Regards,

Patricia

I do talk to myself a lot and so I sometimes mutter words like that. I find it easier to understand my thoughts if I say them out loud. I don't think I have any sort of tic, but I do get random words in my head that I feel like saying out loud like 'mum' or something.

Absolutely.
I talk to myself out loud, "think out loud", hum and rattle off nonsense words and sounds sometimes, and I nearly always subvocalize while I am reading something. That is, I say the words that I read aloud, just in a low mutter, to myself.

Sound is a double-edged sword to me. It can be the most delightful, helpful thing on earth one minute, and the next minute some unexpected sound has got me holding my hands over my ears while I am rocking back and forth, trying to shield myself from it.

I think out loud, too. It is so bad that by the time I am finished mulling something over in my mind, when I go to tell my husband or my daughter they invariably will say, "you already told me that". At this point, I have to explain to them that what they have heard before may or may not be the complete thought because I was still "thinking" about it..... they have to listen to the latest version of the thought! It's sort of like Windows Updates for my brain!! HEHEHEHEHEHEHE.....

I also quote movie lines..... I will hear something that makes me think of a line from a movie and I will say the line I am thinking (or part of it). Sometimes I will even ask people around me if they have seen "such and such" movie and then I will go on to explain why I have blabbed out a line. It makes me seem eccentric rather than totally nuts!! Once in a while, I will find someone who has seen the movie and they will usually laugh and want to talk about the scene.... for a shabby little moment (I'll take what I can get.... hehehehhee).

The majority of the time, however.... the trigger for the line or quote is a single word that is totally unrelated to the line or quote that I want to blurt out. As a result, I have to filter where I am and what I am doing..... if I am alone or with my daughter.... I will just blurt out the nonsense. If I am in public, around my husband or other friends.... I try really hard to keep it a "thought only". I think this is one of those things that makes dealing with people at large exhausting. I have to filter a lot of these weird comments, withhold swaying, tapping, rubbing, etc., interpret facial expressions, body language, tones of voice, etc. and THEN I have to filter it all, process it and respond. After a few hours of dealing with another person, I feel about the same as if I had been taking some sort of test for a few hours. Tired and ready for a break! I think that to be able to really enjoy the company of someone else, I have to be able to at least make random comments or tap my fingers or something along those lines while I do it. People who know me well know that I am prone to tangential thoughts and seem to cope reasonably well. I don't feel tired after talking to these people like I do when I have to talk to someone who requires more "filtering".

I go over conversations I've had with people find myself saying them out loud.

Yes. I think aloud frequently. For me thinking is talking.

ruveyn

I can relate to some degree. Sometimes when I am completely lost in a book, I have sometimes repeated what I last read when someone says Hi to me instead of reciprocating the greeting. Sometimes when I am saying something and someone interrupts me, I repeat the last thing they said instead of going on with the sentence I began. It’s not a big problem for me but sometimes it happens.

I don't do this when I talk to people, but I do find myself muttering things out loud quite often especially when reading a text book. People always tell me to stop, and it's annoying, because it's the quickest way I know to absorb textual information that is complex to understand. My mind is simply not very visual-to-verbal, and I have to hear it for it to register when I'm surrounded by other noises. When I read I also apply many accents depending on what I'm reading. I often speak like a german or englishman in my pronouncing of words. I do also have a bad habit of repeating things in movies or shows when something funny is said.

Confirmed. For what purpose does this behavior serve you think? I’ve had a slow progression of this – or maybe more like a sine wave. When I’m alone for a long time I jibber more to myself – mostly nonsense sounds or my own language. The sounds and made-up words convey feelings I’m unable/not allowed to express to other people. When I’m around other people I still do it but usually just inside my head or very softly to myself. There is always some kind of verbal activity in my head that I can’t get rid of – and when I’m alone it is safer to express out loud.

Esta shay Begoe! = excitement or glad about something
20, 36, 45, 10, 16, 32, 12 – random numbers calm me when I’m nervous but don’t know why I’m nervous. I notice there is an up up down pattern when I write the numbers I’m thinking.
I sing in nonsense pseudo-Spanish or pseudo-Yiddish … words that resemble those languages but I don’t really speak them or understand the words – just conveying a mood. I listen to Spanish/Latino music often even though I don’t know what they are saying.

I read about how people with Alzheimer’s do many of these same things. Do you think it could be related? The degeneration part – probably not, but the affected brain areas might have a common link to autism spectrum.

If I want to think in words, I have to talk out loud or type to translate them into words. Otherwise, I can have a lot of difficulty with certain concepts that are not quite so easily represented in images. That's an imperfect explanation of the process, but I do talk to myself in order to think.

When I'm thinking about something a little bit too intently I will sometimes blurt out my thought, which can be really awkward when I'm sitting in a room with other people.

And when I'm alone I'm constantly muttering to myself.

I memorized a lot of pi just so I would always have something to do like what you said. I always need to have talking going on in my head especially when I'm just walking or waiting. I don't normally just talk out loud (I'm pretty sure I don't) though, but I like having digits of pi or any string of numbers or letters to recite out loud.