do you talk to yourself in public

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I do when I think no one is near enough to hear me, and sometimes I'll misjudge and someone will hear, or I will blurt out my thoughts while not alone, on an impulse, forgetting someone is there. I've thought about pretending to talk on the phone so I can freely talk to myself in public. It just feels so much more natural to think aloud.

Yeah I do. When I was a kid I used to sing , hum , and talk to myself during class. Edit: I only did this in early elementary school years-up to grade 3.
I don't do that any more-in my uni lectures- but I do when I'm travelling on a crowded bus or subway or walking down a busy street.

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daydreamer, could it be it is some sort of stim then?

I talk to myself a little in public, but I do it softly and may only speak a few words to myself. Privately, I talk a lot to myself out loud.

Yes, always whistling (recently learned how!), singing or mumbling and have to work hard not to. I save it for the halls and walks outside while working. At home, I'm always loud.

I have never sung in class before, but often times when I'm by myself, I'll hold conversations with my imaginary friend, and it can look like I'm talking to myself. It's not like a schizophrenic thing, I'm well aware he's not real, nor does he manipulate me in any way, he just gives me someone to talk to when I'm by myself, it helps me process my thoughts better, though I caught myself talking to him on the bus in the mirror once and realised how utterly crazy it makes me look. Sometimes I'll quote scenes from my favourite films or TV shows to myself too because I like the way they sound.

I forgot-I used to whisper to myself during a few particularly stressful summers at day camp, but I was a kid then.

Hmm, I don't know if I would really call it 'talking to myself', it's more just muttering some narration about what I'm doing sometimes a portion of my thoughts out loud, I don't know if people notice and frankly I don't really care.
I have AvPD but this isn't the sort of thing I have anxieties about. Sometimes I'll be saying under my breath something repeatedly (usually like an apology to the people around me even though they're not even supposed to hear, it's more like I wish they would so the situation would be less embarrassing for me) if I'm anxious or embarrassed or something.
I'm not sure why I do this stuff, I suppose I find it enjoyable to some extent, feels natural
I do sing sometimes, too, quietly though not like when I'm singing properly. I tend to get a bit too involved with that though and often it takes me much longer to buy groceries or such because of this, haha.
These are somewhat recent habits I've developed in the past few years (not sure how/when exactly, just noticed at some point that I have this odd habit I didn't earlier), I suppose I care less about how I come across in public to random people.
If I'm with my parents or something though I don't do this stuff since I think they might find it worrisome, it's just enjoyable/helpful/feels natural to me so I see no reason to be worried myself.

Heh, I like to also daydream about conversations I might someday have but I don't do the whole gestures thing since these are conversations I'd have over the internet usually
But I do tend to in other kind of daydreams and such make expressions and make some small movements according to what's happening.

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When a stranger is passing, and I don't want to acknowledge him/her, I just start quietly thinking out loud, like I'm really trying to figure something out, so it makes it seem like if I have to engage, my train of thought would be interrupted. I don't know how they see it, all I know is that it makes me feel comfortable. It's quite useful.

I also quote myself from embarrassing situations I'm replaying in my head at the moment.

I talk to myself or hum (mostly hum) when I am somewhere where there is a lot of background noise. When I am in a very quiet place, I don't.

No, I never have talked to myself in public or singed in class (I don't sing, period). I have conversations with myself in my head as I'm walking along, and sometimes I have accidentally made facial expressions as what I do when I'm really talking to someone, but only when I know there's nobody about, and one or two times people do appear out of nowhere and catch me grinning to myself or frowning furiously, but I don't think they notice that much.

I talk to myself in private all the time. Only sometimes in public. Usually in loud, crowded places where I know one is listening to me. It's really helpful to think out loud.

Yes it is/was one of my stims. I only ever did this in class or at a function (a family dinner or something) when I was really young -7 years old and younger. When I'm on a crowded subway going on a long commute though sometimes I still do it, I forget my social skills, I tune out, it's like travelling time "doesn't count" in my mind (which I know makes no logical sense). Also I do this at home in my room to block out other noises in the house -little noises my other family members make or machines in the house make.

I used to talk and sing to myself in public when I was a child. I have memories of doing it at the playground at recess, and in supermarkets. When I talked to myself, I was actually talking to my imaginary friends. Back then, I didn't realize that it's socially inappropriate to talk to imaginary friends when you're out in public. I still have imaginary friends, although I make sure to wait until I'm by myself before I talk to them these days.

I don't have enough wet-RAM to hold all the thoughts I have to process on a daily basis, so I frequently mutter things to myself over and over while thinking about other things so I can re-access the memory from the sound when I need it. It tends to annoy my co-workers, unfortunately.
What makes things worse is that I tend to get the echolalia like a freakin myna... and if other people are talking while I'm trying to utilise sound-memory, what they're saying will get mixed up with it and I'll end up mimicking them instead. I have had accusations of mockery this way.