Busted in public talking to oneself - how embarrassing

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lucious
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01 Aug 2013, 10:12 pm

lol-happens to me so often i just no longer care. if its a stranger, i just take comfort in the fact i mean nothing to them and they mean nothing to me.

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02 Aug 2013, 1:42 am

If someone criticizes you then tell them to go screw themselves. It's not a bad thing to do. I assume most everyone does it without admitting it.

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02 Aug 2013, 1:44 am

Somehow, this has yet to happen to me. (Aside from my nosy parents...)

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02 Aug 2013, 1:47 am

^^^
lucky you.

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02 Aug 2013, 2:05 am

I know how you feel, I was once caught singing along with my headphones at work. I thought the office was empty. The fact that I was singing along with 80's metal made it all the more embarrassing! :oops:

I have also been known to think out loud, usually when working through something mentally stimulating.

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02 Aug 2013, 2:43 am

Keni wrote:

The person probably envied you for having a hands free miniature mobile phone :)

Exactly. Soon enough, everyone will be socketed into a bionic monocle & too sponged to even notice carbon-based lifeforms a few inches away. Consider yourself the avant wave.

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02 Aug 2013, 3:39 am

Ha Ha ^

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02 Aug 2013, 4:51 pm

I used to do this when I was younger. Luckily I outgrew it. I trained myself not to do it because I don't want people to hear my private thoughts. I still occasionally whisper random phrases when I'm alone.

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02 Aug 2013, 5:04 pm

I've been caught talking to myself on many an occasion and haven't really been that emberrassed. What IS emberrassing for me is when I think I am alone and get caught doing my strange, total body action stims.

Sometimes they'll ask me if i'm alright. Other times they'll just look at me and i'll ask them how long they've been there. their answer is almost invariably "Ummm, long enough."

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02 Aug 2013, 11:32 pm

^ oh that sux

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22 Dec 2013, 5:30 am

To quote from the immortal J. R. R. Tolkien:
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`In one thing you have not changed, dear friend,'said Aragorn: `You still speak in riddles.'
`What? In riddles?' said Gandalf. `No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: They choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.'
(The Two Towers, book 1, chapter 5, "The White Rider". Page 127 in my copy)

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22 Dec 2013, 5:54 am

I am always talking to myself and I am always getting caught doing it.

People just give you funny looks.

I need to stop doing this when I am out though. I don't mind when I am home alone, I can talk to myself until my heart is content.

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22 Dec 2013, 5:55 am

It happens all the time... a bit embarassing, but not a big deal.

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22 Dec 2013, 5:57 am

ImAnAspie wrote:

I love this quote!

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22 Dec 2013, 6:04 am

Sharkgirl wrote:

Ok so I need to do this thing where I unwind and mentally process what I am doing both specifically task or project related and generally with my life etc. Its an important part of my executive planning to keep me on task and review where I am up to with things periodically. It is like defragging a computer - I spend the time mentally processing everything done recently and then putting these files in their correct place in my head.
So I have to process it out loud, I need to talk for it to make sense. For this I need solitude home alone, or go out for night walk otherwise I do it in the car. People probably think I am just talking on the handsfree phone when I am in the car.
I was out talking to myself last night during a night walk and embarrassingly I realised suddenly that someone was walking near me and would have definitely heard the last few minutes of what I was saying.
I almost died on the spot, I wanted the ground to swallow me up, I quickly whistled to the dog and turned around and walked the other way.
I guess it is hard cause this talking thing is something I cannot not do - I simply must do it and when am in a situation when I have trouble doing it such as on holidays with lots of people and no solitude I have to escape no matter what to get my solitude to talk to myself.
I see it as a stim that has to be fulfilled or I will explode. So really considering that I cant help It I shouldn't be embarrassed.
I am trying to change the things I can and accept the things I cant - it is very hard to accept the embarrassment I felt last night.
I just hate the way that I have to hide away to be myself and am so embarrassed when someone actually sees me for what I really am.

What were you saying

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22 Dec 2013, 3:57 pm

there is a difference between merely speaking to oneself and having an involved conversation with different aspects of oneself. :idea:

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