Talking to yourself

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I talk out loud.

I talk to myself a lot. Even when I am not talking out load I cannot think verbally unless there is at lease some sub-vocal motor movements in my tongue and throat.

Also, words that end in s are the bane of my existance. I cannot read like..the word "talks" or whatever without wanting to say it aloud. I cannot think a word that ends in s without trying to say it. (I cannot say the s sound on the ends of most words...my mouth is stupid or something. it comes out like "that sucktth" I think....I cannot really describe the sound that I make. but most people don't seem to notice unless I am tired or have been talking for a long time in which case I don't put the end on the word at all making that sucks "that suck".)

All the time. I once shared an office with a boss who was certainly on the spectrum, and who talked to herself non-stop while she worked. Until that time I tried very hard not to do it myself, but here was an accomplished, acclaimed PhD in Astrophysics who was totally unashamed at talking to herself in front of other people. I then relaxed my rules and have done it ever since, although my aim is to keep it to times that I'm alone. My NT husband does it somewhat, but since he often wears a wireless earpiece, few people notice (I can tell the difference!)

Yes. It's often the only way I can have a sensible conversation!

I do. I have meetings with myself, ask myself questions, and tell myself what to do. It was much worse in the past, there were other invisible people there to which I talked out loud, when I tried to stop this I got myself in a psychosis. So I still do this nut then in my head.

yes i always seem to have a running commentary in this strange brain of mine i do wish the wittyness of my brain would come out of my mouth sometimes though lol

I only complain out loud to a hypothetical listener. As in: "Uggghhh I hate this PRINTER" or *slams down phone* "A**HOLE".. I'm sure it annoys my coworkers....

i never talk to myself. i do not bother talking to myself because i know i would not be interested in what i had to say.

I talk to myself all the time like there's another person in the room... But I don't do it in front of everyone, or they probably might think i'm going insane.... I still kinda do it in public places without even realising im doing it... I do get a couple of weird looks at times.

Yes, this I think is because my brain and mind are extremely active. I heard part of Asperger's is that you think your thoughts out loud, sometime really loud. Mine has gotten worse as I got older, but I have found if I held things back, I feel even more like crap, especially when I am stressed out about something and it is in my head, if I do not talk about it, out loud or to anyone, it stays and disturbs me more. Once I talk it out loud, I am okay. Unfortunately, now that I am going out in the community more and now going to school, after being isolated in a residence and being in situations where the only people contact I had was with people who that disabled who could not communicate, and the ones who did, were not as high functioning and have severe problems with interacting, where I was not able to have a regular conversation with them. This is pretty much how I communicated, was with myself. Though I always had this since I was a child, but when I was younger I did not do this in public. Now since the whole 10 years of this residence stuff and not being around anyone who would lsiten or talk with me, it has gotten worse.

i talk both to myslef and with myself, but usually i try to confine it to when im alone,usually out in my studio supposedly working.
i talk both in my head and out loud, depending on the situation, but never out loud in company, althoug i can be talking in my head and zone out from whats going on around me

I talk to myself a lot, when I'm alone. I say things into the air, that I don't have the nerves of steel to say straight out to peoples' faces. It can be anything from stuff about music to what a woman should be, to what I think about multiculturalisim and Canada and how I'd be content to do things the British way until the day I die, obsesions and the fact that my friends and family should accept them, that I have them and that I will always obsess over one thing or another, until the day that I die, because that's a big part of being on the spectrum, for many of us. It can be about disability rights. I could be admitting to my dad, that I am a little bit slow, after all these years, but to myself as practice for when I actually do tell him, face to face, which is not a sign of weakness. I also go on to myself about how cool it is, that I look and act just like my favourite Kink, and to convince myself not to let the worldly types in my life change that, about me, and if those people try to do so, I've got to stay on the right path, and stay away from anything that resembles beer (near beer because I don't drink the real stuff), and casinos.

If I think of something funny, I'll say it out loud as practice to see how it would sound if I throw it into a conversation, but I think that is just me being a dork. Also, if I have a really good, snarky comment for someone who pisses me off, or MIGHT piss me off, I'll practice out loud how I would say it, if I had the NERVE to say it. Usually when people piss me off, I just cry though... lol