Do you talk to yourself?

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Sort of, when Im cooking/doing something new that has many steps, it helps me to stay focussed if I say the key words a few times.

I talk to myself in sign language.

More since I've been living alone. I also talk back to the radio and TV.

All the time

Yeah I do but I'm just thinking out loud or its to remind myself about something or to help me focus on a task...

I used to talk to myself when I was little. Not just rambling about whatever, but real two-way conversations. The kind with questions or statements, followed by answers or comments, respectively. Kind of like...
Aspie1: Did you have a good time at preschool today?
Aspie1: No, [Name of kid] threw a toy at me, and the tater tots at lunch were too dry.
Aspie1: Don't cry. [Name of my stuffed dog] still loves you.
Aspie1: He's so much better than those preschool kids.
(and so on, and so on)

Yes, sometimes. Some people think it is strange.

I barely talk in most cases....but I talk to myself plenty.

Yep, when I am stressed out about something.

I have two coworkers (non-Aspie) to talk to themselves all the time too. Out loud. One's a grumbler -- muttering irritated comments all day -- and the other spits out sentence fragments of what he's thinking about, as if the circuit in his brain that keeps those words inside fails for a split second.

Oh hell yes, all the time, although I've managed to train myself so I'm not talking out loud in public... It actually helps in my line of work, my manager was extolling the virtues of 'risk triggered commentary' (I.e 'legalised talking to onesself' in dangerous situations in order to minimise risk, I work with trains & marine containers)... 'I'm happy with your commentary' he said ' you do it all the time...' Which was a little embarrassing (especially since I was just having a convo with myself about something totally unrelated whilst he was assessing me from afar) so if you ask me, 'normal' is relative!

I smiled at your post Tornado, I do talk out loud when I am alone, but sometimes when I am engrossed in something it ends up being aloud. Thankfully my present colleagues actually like me doing it as they get to hear my mind at work and how I end up at my conclusion or opinion. They like my different way of approaching a subject so that is great for me.

As others have said, I did it a lot more when I was younger. I was delighted when the first mobile phone earpieces came out, as I bought one, didn't switch it on but could babble away to my hearts content and people thought I was talking to somebody else.

Yeah, I'll do it.

Worse, I'll talk to inanimate things as well sometimes. No, I dont know why...

Nothing wrong with that really. To begin with, they can't answer back, so if you're upset with something, it can make you feel better!

I don't think I do. Maybe I should learn to do it. It might be fun since I live alone.

jk1: What are you eating?
jk1: Ice cream.
jk1: Is it good?
jk1: Yeah. Mango and cream flavor.
jk1: Can I have some?
jk1: Sure.

Oh god, all the time, and I'm doing it more and more as my life goes on -- but that may be because I'm permitting myself to do so, since it dawned on me that it helps me in many ways.

I don't do it in public around people -- I know enough to control it because other people think you're a raving lunatic if they see you talking to yourself.

I also do not have a "conversation" with myself, like question and answer style -- that's not what I do. I simply speak out my thoughts almost as if there is another person to listen to me, though I'm very clear that it's only myself listening.

I know precisely why I talk out loud to myself: because it helps me order my thoughts and make more sense of what I'm thinking and feeling, than if I'm just thinking inside my head like most people. It functions the same for me as writing one's thoughts down on paper -- it's a clarifying technique.

I also do it to "rehearse" things I'm going to want to say in an upcoming conversation I know I'm about to have with a specific person. It helps to script-out ahead of time some of the responses I need to give or things I need to say, as I find that I can suffer from slow processing when "on the spot" in a conversation that may be stressful to me.

I also talk out loud after the fact, when a conversation did not go well and I'm trying to make sense of what I could have said better. Because of my processing issues I often do not manage to stand up for myself, advocate well, say something in such a way that could have made things go in a better direction.

So I'm always doing a post mortem on those events, and I pace around my apartment trying out loud the other things I could have said, or something I want to say better the next time.

Another aspect is that when I feel very stressed I tend to talk out loud more from sheer agitation. I always know when I'm not as happy or calm as I even think I am because the talking out loud of a non-preparatory kind gets worse.

In none of these scenarios do I hear voices or think I'm talking TO someone though. I am clearly only "thinking out loud" and I know it.

I don't think it's "not healthy" because I believe that it IS a legitimate coping method for some types of stressful thoughts, and a way to crystallize one's thoughts if confused or trying to figure something out, similar to, as I've said, writing it down. I do journal too, but I find that talking out loud also helps.

I do it quite often, especially when I know I'm all alone and don't have to worry about "it's not healthy". That's my time for echolalia, as well.