Talking to yourself

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Could be considered, I don't know...paranoid?

Why does that belief have to be paranoid? Maybe they are reading my thoughts so they can try and help me, give me whatever I request.

We all do it so don't feel bad. This quote from Transformers-Beast Wars sums it up for me:
"Why do you always talk to yourself?"
"I simply have a penchant for intelligent conversation."
-- Blackarachnia and Megatron, "The Low Road"

Perhaps belief in telepathy, could be considered just delusional.

I would only consider it worrisome in that I really would not like to be put in such a weakened position against someone else who could know every little thing I think about. Now, obviously if someone were a telepath, they couldn't let anyone know otherwise they would face fear and persecution but in reality there is no rational basis for belief in telepathy unless you have irrefutable proof in that they exist.

Perhaps it is just me who is a little bit paranoid and perhaps I do think I speak to myself and hold internal conversations a bit too much. That is not to say it is not useful to try and bounce ideas off yourself and seek different viewpoints on a matter.

I talk to myself out loud and I always have. As a child I used to get told off for doing it. My mother told me it was a sign of madness! But I passed "madness" a long time ago, so I've nothing to worry about there LOL

I find talking to myself calms me down and helps me focus and stay focused. There's always so much crap going on in my head that often talking out loud is the only way I get anything done. It also makes me feel less alone. I guess it's a kind of stim for me.

Quite often. Sometimes just saying random words to myself or (in private) ranting as if talking to someone else, but I actually feel accomplished after doing that. I think I talk to myself because I can barely talk to other people at all.

I actually talk to myself. Not just lipping a conversation from my head. But actual conversations. It gets emabarassing in public especially, since most people don't talk out loud to themselves the way I do.

"Okay what's on my shopping list"

I skim it.

"Okay let's go get that broccoli. Getting broccoli, let's go."

And then when I do get to the broccoli.

"Which one of you guys is nice and firm. No I don't wnat you, you seem rather weak. Do you have a firm stalk? Oh my what about you,"

And that's how my shopping experiences go. And then if I am like walking somewhere like let's say Barnes and Noble from the parking lot.

"Going to check out their bargain section. Oh maybe I should get starbucks. I do like the tea. Tea is good for you. See healthy."

I'm starting to think I'm crazy. But that's fine. I have accepted the fact that I probably am. But I know I get weird looks or sometimes this occurs.

"But..."

Person in front or behind me, "Huh? What?"

Me, "Oh no sorry I was talking to myself,"

I tell this to complete strangers sometimes.

Very similar problem here. I actually need to lip to think about words.

I think the problem is that I use the spatial/tactile side of my brain for language rather than the symbolic side. To turn an idea into words, I feel them with the muscles that do speech. That's just the symptom. When I focus on left-side vision and hearing to wake up my brain's language center (which seems to be on that side), I notice that while speech and cues start to "just work", a lot of things hurt. (Pain is symbolic good or bad added to tactile sense.) I was probably walling it off because I couldn't do anything about it, but now I'm older and I can. For me fixing those things has made the other things start to get better. YMMV.

One of the good aspects of these forums is that many of the behaviors I have are not uncommon here. I have always talked to myself either in my head or aloud. NTs seem to find this disturbing, and I don't know why. It seems they are disturbed by people who act and think differently.

People have told me it's a sign of old age, but I've talked to myself as long as I can remember. Mostly in a command sort of way, but sometimes it will be a full conversation.

Ok.....this REALLY made me laugh out loud......but only becuase it fits me EXACTLY!! !! I do the "Let's do XX" or "We need to XX" out loud to myself ALL the time!!

I also like to play with names of things that I see and joke around with myself to keep things entertaining..... for example, at the grocery store I might be passing by the display of apples and say something like "Ooooh look at all those appley-apples!! ! They're so shiny......it's like Snow White. I think they might be POISON apples!! ! BWAHAHA!! !" I have fun :p

However, after realizing that talking aloud to oneself is not "normal", I have sort of trained myself to talk very quietly to myself or even whisper. To other people, I think the girl who whispers and mumbles to herself is creepier than the one that just talks out loud. Haha! They probably think I am mumbling out an ancient curse on all the produce or something.

On a similar note, I have this one best friend who I trust completely and who knows all my quirks and loves me anyway. Well, since I am safe to be completely open around her, I often talk/mumble to myself when with her or at her house. She knows that I do it and she accepts it as just a part of me, but she still gets a kick out of it and finds it amusing that I see nothing wrong with it. I'll just be minding my own business, doing what I do, and she'll walk in the room or come up right in front of me and say with a smirk and raised eyebrows...."Uh...banana? Who are you talking to...?" I just laugh and say "Oh, just me."

ahaaha, lol. Yeah I'm the same. I started to realize more often than not that people were looking at me. So I learned to keep myself more quiet when talking to myself. haahaa. Because otherwise people will think I left the cooco ward.

That's just the point, isn't it? Who else to talk to? ^^ If no one wants to talk about what you want to talk about...


In public, this is what I actually think. ^^ If I am with someone else, I suddenly stop thinking because paying attention to another person requires my full attention. People are surprised when I don't notice something they thought was obvious, but they don't get that I was already paying attention to them and what is going on inside my head. Sometimes these situations make me feel ret*d. ^^

I think it's because in old age you stop caring more and more about social conventions. And probably because society makes you tired at one point. Because society is really exhausting for everyone.

Talking to ones self is actually quite "normal". If you are repeating things to yourself to remember, or practicing what you need to say, or saying outloud what you need to do its called "self-mediation". Now, talking to the voices in your head is a little different. Especially if they talk back. That would be a little abnormal, and possibly dangerous. However what Ive seen here is perfectly harmless and actually quite normal from what my doctors tell me.

Bos

You know that saying the first signs of madness is when your talking to yourself and well recently I've started to talk to myself, I talk to myself when I'm alone or when I think I'm alone, I talk to myself randomly, sometimes ( a lot) I have full blown conversations with myself, sometimes I talk to the computer screen, sometimes I talk to myself in public and people stare which can be embarrassing, a lot of the times I don't realise I'm doing it and recently my Mum has noticed that I do it.