Talking to yourself

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Does anyone else here talk to themselves? Is it common or not on the spectrum? Because I find myself muttering to myself multiple times a day.

I do everyday too, alone and in public (I sometimes see people look at me and I stop, I feel like this)

I think it's pretty common. I do it loudly when I'm alone. I talk to myself more than I talk to anyone else in the world. I'll do it in public occasionally, but only when something really bad is going on and I think I'm alone.

I tend to mutter, but usually only if I think of something that makes me anxious,then I have the tendency to just blurt something out, sometimes unrelated to the thought that made me feel anxious.

I only talk to myself when nobody else is around. Which does include when I'm outdoors.

This is not an AS trait, because some NT would do this also, but I'd say it's more common for people on the spectrum. I talk to myself a lot, but not out loud. Sometime yes, but most of the time I will ask and respond questions in my mind. It's a way to do some introspection and find solution to problem I might have.

I do talk to myself out loud and a lot but only when I'm on my own.

I do also in private, but I whisper it (mostly because I'm scared people will hear me!).

I conciously do it to 'vent' the things I wished I'd been able to say (or to try to resolve something that's worrying me), throughout my day; I mostly say very little, so being able to do this is quite cathartic.

I'm not really aware if I do it in public, but I have found myself stopping what I'm doing and having a 'sense' (and a feeling that my mouth has been moving in speech, if that makes sense!), that I have been speaking my thoughts out loud.
I really hope I don't do that, but my mind is constantly racing with words and thoughts that some of them must, surely slip out sometimes!

Yes. Gotten it under control lately, but used to alot.

Sometimes break out laughing at something funny that occurs to me when doing a boring task.

I talk to myself a lot, but I do it in the form of talking to imaginary friends and voicing their responses back to myself. When I was a child I used to do it everywhere, even in public, but now I only do it when I am alone.

Talking to myself is one way I think in words. Otherwise I just get into repeating the same thought over and over, or think in imagery - not that I dislike that, but sometimes I need to be able to refine my thoughts in ways I don't seem to be able to manage with imagery alone. I also find that while talking out loud and verbalizing my thoughts, my ability to visualize intensifies tremendously.

I also think it may be kind of stimmy.

Only in derision of and about myself alone or in public never caring who hears or what looks I get.

Yeah, I talk to myself. I also often read my emails and internet posts aloud as I type them if no one is around.

But more than saying things that make sense, I say things that don't make sense sometimes when I'm alone. For years Ive briefly wondered about it and then just shrugged and ignored it. I think some of these are phrases from movies. That might qualify as echolalia.

I talk to myself all the time. I do it at home, walking down the street or cleaning parking lots. I don't do it at my clubhouse or my parents home. That's the way that I like to work out my problems.

When I am alone I maintain a conversation with myself, often out loud, maybe 50% of the time. In groups I do not.

Yep, regularly, although it's a kind of muttered commentary on something I'm doing or about to do. A voice-over, maybe.
Not really bothered if anyone else hears it.