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28 Sep 2007, 12:41 am

Whenever I think to myself (like right when I'm typing this), I can hear myself speaking what I'm going to say or do in my head. Usually, for me, it interferes with my other processes like talking, or typing, (I'm kind of stuttering at the moment with my typing). It's like I have a little me living in my head, standing in the middle of a loud, busy intersection, yelling to me what I should do. But it's very hard to hear me amongst all the traffic.

I sometimes stutter when I speak because of the constant flow of thoughts racing through my brain. I wish it would just stop once in a while.



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28 Sep 2007, 12:48 am

I can defiantly relate because I have great difficulty when I have multiple points I want to make and end up trying to say them all at once. I stutter out the beginnings of multiple sentences because I can't choose what is more important to finish first. I will then I have to stop, apologize and pause before I very carefully proceed with once thought at a time.



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28 Sep 2007, 3:47 am

serenity wrote:
I read some comments about speaking/thinking of ones self in 3rd person on another thread. I didn't want to hijack the other thread, so I thought I'd start a new one. How many of you think or speak of yourself in 3rd person ie; using your name to refer to yourself instead of I? I don't think that I've ever done this, but my son does. He also has a very hard time with personal pronouns. He's always mixing up he with she ect. This is supposed to be one of those tell-tale signs of ASD. I've never heard anyone referring to it on this board before today, so now I'm curious as to whether or not people with AS do this often, or if it's mostly just those with classic autism that do it.


Apparently I used to do it up until I was about 5 years old but then stopped doing it. I don't do it now though.


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28 Sep 2007, 3:54 am

I don't think I've ever referred to myself in the third person, but when I was young I often mixed up my personal pronouns - "You want an ice cream." and being surprised when ice cream was not forthcoming, being instead consumed by the person I was addressing, who had a twisted sense of humor :P



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28 Sep 2007, 6:40 am

I do that occasionally. I am high-functioning but it doesn't stop me having 'Kanner's autism' symptoms! :cry:


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28 Sep 2007, 5:57 pm

I don't refer to myself in the third person as a matter of normal course, but for some reason that I do not entirely understand, I slip into doing that when I'm extremely agitated, and occationally when I'm just confused.

A small point of irony/fun; I go third person somewhat intentionally each time I sign a post, and I enjoy doing it. Who'duv thunk it!

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28 Sep 2007, 6:12 pm

I've never confused pronouns, but I used to have a narrative to my life in third person running through my head. It sounded like the narration in a documentary. It had stopped by the time I reached middle school. I think I became aware of how abnormal it was and stopped it on purpose. I also used to feel really uncomfortable calling other people by name so I'd just say, "Hey, you . . ." I got in lot of trouble for this at home and school so I stopped doing it by second grade.



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28 Sep 2007, 6:21 pm

Funny you mention that -- I'm still slightly uncomfortable being verbally addressed by name to my face. For some reason, it feels aggressive and formal. I don't mind it when someone's trying to get my attention, but when they're already talking to me, in my mind it feels like I'm being scolded.



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28 Sep 2007, 7:27 pm

Noa wrote:
Funny you mention that -- I'm still slightly uncomfortable being verbally addressed by name to my face. For some reason, it feels aggressive and formal. I don't mind it when someone's trying to get my attention, but when they're already talking to me, in my mind it feels like I'm being scolded.


I'm the same way, but I had forgotten about it because I haven't been interacting with many people IRL lately. (I go to school online.)



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28 Sep 2007, 7:33 pm

I keep meaning to get into the habit of referring to myself in the plural, much like Venom. That'd confuse people a tad :P