if you talk to yourself...

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Happens to me too. I would describe it more of my "outer voice" echoing my "inner voice", if that makes sense.

Who else would I talk to?

The Four Stages of Insanity:
Talks to Self
Answers Self
Argues with Self
No Longer Speaking to Self


In all honesty, when i'm trying to work something out, i'll think out loud, or when trying to get myself to do something, I'll nag myself like my mom does. The sad thing is, I still argue back! I usually win.

I nag myself to do stuff too, only I do it in the form of pretending it's my imaginary fraternal twin sister who is doing the nagging. This has actually been extremely helpful to me, because under the "guidance" of my "twin sister", I've managed to completely stop having accidents. "She" is also good at reminding me to take my medications and to shower.

Having few friends while growing up, I became a rather skilled self-conversationalist. In a crowd I got in the habit of moving my mouth as little possible so I could avoid detection. Alone, the dialogue was also in my head so I wouldn't fully enunciate what I was saying.
I did this enough that I think it had an impact on my overall speech patterns. Sometimes I'll start talking to someone with my mouth almost shut and get asked why I'm muttering. It's not infrequent for people to ask me what country I'm from when I talk.

It's also occurred to me that the fraction of a second time delays that stilt the rhythm of my speech might make me sound like I'm speaking English as a second language...

I talk to myself when i am doing things.

such as.
"First i need to do this"
"No that wont work at all"
i just keep answering stuff. I also sometimes chalk it up to talking to myself it someone said they were not listening to me.

I thought it was a well-known adage that if you talk to yourself you'll never find a better listener?

I listen to myself very carefully and argue the point until both sides of myself agree. Because both "voices" are me, they can read each others' minds and so it's easy for them to trust that there's no competitive games or lying going on. I can take criticism from myself without feeling that my ego is under attack......I know that we only want each other to be happy, whereas with other people, who knows what they're really up to when they speak?

I usually just talk to myself in my head so that in public, I don't seem awkward but I often do the same thing and try to analyze my life and what I need to do to make it better.

I know it's strange. When I used to talk to myself, I would pretend I was being interviewed and would act like people I had seen on television giving lengthy interviews. They were my inspiration. When I wasn't busy practice interviewing, I was talking for real, on the phone. In person, the people I knew would sometimes tell me to shut up and, yes, they were that blunt and rude about it and non Aspie, to my knowledge which is why I think anyone is cabable of being rude or blunt, regardless of their neuro-status. I was a talk junkie for quite a while but weaned myself into calm quietude.
I guess I listened to myself, to some extent.

If I'm bored and alone I'll talk out loud to myself in conversation format, usually narrating my thought process. But I've noticed that if I'm not thinking about it, I'll have a train of thought going in my head and say things aloud that don't make sense. Usually random noises or "ok, ok, ok..." over and over.

I tend to make a lot of bird songs out loud. It's comforting. I do robins, cardinals, chickadees. etc. I also sing songs that I have made up that use these sounds.

I also like to make the same sounds my cats make. My youngest loves to say, "Meepy?" It's just so cute that I can't help but answer in kind.

I also catch myself involuntarily saying things like "It's okay, it's okay. it's okay," "Easy, easy," and other such self-settling-down phrases.

I do that too and my cat makes sounds I do.
He says 'Hello' when he comes home or tells me 'Rain' [when it rains] and 'More' when he wants more food.

Usually I talk to myself out of frustration so I usually say things like "ugh, what was I thinking!?" or "hmm, where did I put that thing?"

Me too. I'll also talk out loud as if I were talking to someone when I have stuff to say and no one to talk to; this seems to partially satisfy the desire to share with another human being.