Do you talk to yourself? (singing doesn't count)

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I give a lot of "pep talks to myself". Usually in my head, but sometimes out loud.

Particularly when I'm tired or fatigued, I'm prone to let slip a few random words of my inner monologue before I catch myself and stop. Then, five minutes later, it'll happen again. After I've done lots of heavy labor, I'll start saying anything that goes through my head until I've rested up some. When I'm by myself, even if I'm not tired, sometimes I talk to myself, and sometimes I don't. I feel a little bit embarrassed when someone catches me talking to myself, but not much. It seems much more common than most people think.

I do it the most under stress. sort of a murmur mostly. I t's involuntary and I was devastated when a co-worker commented on it. I didn't realize people noticed!

Yes I do, I'm doing it more often lately, since I started fighting against my thick daydreaming, and now that I almost stopped it I get really bored when I'm alone, so i'll say out loud any comment that comes to mind.

And of course I sing, especially when I'm driving alone in my car... I tend to get crazy in there.

Oh wow, I talk to myself alot. Sometimes just for the sake of being goofy or in self criticizm, but I also do the whole conversation rehearsal thing. Or when I'm teaching myself something I explain it aloud as if I were lecturing on it to someone else.

I do that sometimes. once in the school library. It was kind of embarassing and i did not realize what I was doing . No one said anything, though.

I talk to myself all the time, holding whole conversations with myself sometimes, and no one really cares.

I also do it before I write something like a short story, like I'm telling someone how I'm going to do it. And yes, I agree. Getting caught is extremely embarassing.
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i talk to myself on the way home from work usually. i usually repeat stuff i have said in a conversation i had that day or will play out possible scenarios in conversations i may have in the future.

how strange to find others that do it. i thought i was a total weirdo. now i feel better.

I do that too. I even play out scenarios that could have been had I reacted a certain way. (I find it helpful in future situations)

hahaha... Before I read this thread I had never told anyone about any of this.

I like to talk to my self and repeat certain phrases that make no sense to others like
Can you eat it or these pretzels are making me thirsty.

I do that, too. Or I'll have pretend conversations that I WISH I had said instead of what actually did get said. My job interview being a case in point. After I went into my current place of employment, all I did was talk as if I were in the job interview, answering the questions with just the right answer, and generally wowing the socks of the store manager who would offer me a job right then and there. Oh, too bad REAL life doesn't work as well as REEL life, eh?

I've especially done that for job interviews. Most mine were for law enforcement jobs, and those are rough because those people are cutting your actions and demeanor to pieces in their minds. In that world, if you come off as just slightly off, then you get passed over immediately. The AS traits were absolutely hanging me in those interviews. In fact, a lot of that post interview self-analysis I performed identified certain traits, so that when I found out about AS I was floored, because many of these problems were specific things I had previously identified about myself -- much more than just "knowing" I was simply different.

Usually if I talk to myself, I'm alone. I do talk to plants, my pets, and whatever I'm brewing. I sometimes have silent conversations in my head, often on the way to and from job interviews. I get embarassed if something slips out when I'm in public as I think others are thinking I'm crazy.

I've thought about getting one of those bluetooth ear pieces so that when I AM talking to myself and someone catches me, all I have to do is point and everything is okay. Because as long as it LOOKS like you're carrying on a conversation with someone, no one thinks you are crazy. Too bad I ABHOR talking on cell phones.

Sorry to bring this to the top, but...



Out loud???


Like AceOfSpades I think faster than I speak, and I am extremely non-verbal. I don't "talk" to myself but I do hold conversations with myself and enjoy the process. Almost like I'm writing a book or movie screenplay. There's a certain level of "practice" in the whole process. Yeah, a large component is practicing for dealing with other people, but not in a planned way because I don't talk to people usually. Just theoretical, generic situations really.