Pacing back and forth and talking to yourself.

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I think you have to start considering talking to a doc when you can't tell where the voices are coming from and why they are there, I am fortunate enough to be armed with the knowledge that my internal monologues are all generating from me going over my wonderings, rantings or vomitings of excessive or charged up thoughts clogging my head. I can get a pretty bad case of fleetingly turning into a hissing snake if inanimate objects are not complying or the environment overloads me, that's as animated as I get whilst producing self-chatter, I flail around and spin when I am lost in thought and turning over things in my head, I certainly pace but the discussion I always understand is emanating from my conscious efforts or imagined folk, it gets a little muddy there but I am in the process of permanently checking my handle on that elusive slice of wilderness called ''sanity'' and I find I do not have thoughts implanted or inserted in my head... that begs the riddle though, if I have created certain characters, how do I separate their dialogue from the dialogue I have provided them? I tend to lose grip a little when it comes to imaginings but they don't interfere with me too much unless I am engaging with them, in dreams they never seem to give up though...

Talking to myself,
I have words or phrases
I repeat.

"No, no no...."
"I don't know, I don't know...."
"I hate myself, I hate myself,...."
(That gem shows up
usually when I wake up.)
"I love you and want to marry you, I love...."
(When I'm in a good mood,
no further explanation available.)

I hear myself talking,
without deciding to say those things,
or so it feels.

I pace when I can't sleep,
or when I'm anxious.
My house is small,
so it's precision pacing.

I circle and say
F!@&, F!@&, F!@&,...
during meltdowns.
If it gets that far,
it's hard to stop.
Awkward at work.

I've done things like that my whole life. It's one of the reasons I rather be home alone(my girlfriend doesn't count) because I was criticized alot as a kid & I forced myself to quit talking to myself & not to walk around cuz I got fussed or asked annoying questions when I did.

I pace a lot when I'm nervous.

I recently did a lengthy survey that addressed these topics, among others. (I should have a thread of charts up later today.)



There is significant correlation (less than 5% chance of coincidence) between pacing and talking to yourself, between talking to yourself and ADHD, and between believing yourself to have Asperger's (whether or not the professionals say so too) and ADHD. But I found no significant correlation between pacing and Asperger's, or between talking to yourself and Asperger's.

Yep. Me too. Especially lately with being unemployed and tolerating two roommates who have become sick of my aspie behavior ... oh and also being unemployed. But ...



I'm like this too. I'm well away this sort of behavior can be cast you in a negative light in a NT world. I do it mostly out of survival. And, of course, making sure I don't screw myself by appearing "crazy".



I submit mostly to do this at home. I do go for long walks and I will say things to myself if I know nobody is watching.

... I've been caught a couple of times. But, sometimes I need the fresh air when I'm sorting this stuff out aloud ... it relaxes me.

I would become severely depressed if I was somehow prevented from talking to myself outloud. I've probably done it all my life. I'm my own best friend! I talk to myself through executive functions if I'm under time constraints or stress. Normally I talk to myself out loud on my daily walks.

On my walks the talking will usually be a response to or comment about a nonverbal thought. Lots of palilaia. If another pedestrian approaches I either stop talking or reduce to an inaudible whisper. People in cars, across the street, I really don't care. So many people have small wireless ear bud cell microphones now, it's less unusual to see someone seemingly talking to themselves anyway.

I don't pace.

I do have a sense as though a benevolent omniscience is nearly always "watching" me. Sort of a Truman Show, only instead of being oblivious about it as the character was, I feel like I have an awareness of it. I think I always have.