Do you ever talk to yourself?

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It's a bad habit of mine. Whenever I'm alone I will whisper to myself the most random things. I usually talk about the stories I'm writing. Or I will have conversations with myself. Even around people, I will think to myself. And have conversations with my brain.

I recently moved into an apartment. I discovered inadvertently and embarrassingly that the vent over my stove is like an intercom into the apartment above me. So now I have to consciously censor my constant monologue, lest the neighbors hear everything I'm saying to myself. I do okay for awhile, then suddenly realize I'm talking aloud to myself again. It's driving me ka-wazy. I talk to myself almost incessantly, even out shopping.

All the years I was working in Radio, I developed character voices and celebrity impersonations talking to myself in the shower (instead of singing). It's very hard to curb habits that ingrained.

Of course. That's why I can never have roommates. I'd annoy the heck out of them.

Of course, I talk to myself! Where I live and work, it's the only way to have an intelligent conversation. Besides, it's hard for Aspies like us to find anyone who are willing to take the time to understand us.

Last edited by RoadWarrior7 on 06 Dec 2009, 3:06 am, edited 1 time in total.

Yepp, i got to talk to someone but usually no one is around so I end up talking to myself.

i practise what i'll say to people before i meet up with them (social gathering etc). i have a kind of imaginary conversation, and sometimes i even lose track of time and end up late. it's pretty useful when i see someone i know and i can tell them what i've been practising telling, but if i am introduced to someone new i am somewhat disconcerted because the questions they ask aren't the kind my friends ask.

oh and i talk to myself when i assemble things - furniture, toys, jigsaws, broken china etc. ("now this goes here, and i will put the screw through this and the one next to it. just hold still...")

I do from time to time.

I only talk to myself at home but not in public though.

Yeah, and it can be embarrassing. Depending on what's being talked about. This contributed to some social phobia I experienced a while back. I'd find people looking at me and discover I had been talking to myself about random and often situationally inappropriate topics.

For me its a way to sort out situations and concepts. Either by replaying situations that have already occurred or imagining conversations that might occur; sometimes of course its just plain fantasizing.

The only problem with imagining conversations that might occur is that when they do occur they never play out as imagined.

Random Fact:
Jane Jacobs, an important author and urbanist, openly admitted to having conversations with Abraham Lincoln and other historical figures since she was a child. She considered it a healthy form of inner exploration.

I tend to voice my thoughs aloud when I am by myself, I wouldn't call it a conversation, though.

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer ... ask me.

I tried to once ... But the topics were always predictable and I kept interrupting myself.

I'd think that was a joke if it wasn't true.

Sometimes when I'm alone. The worst part is when it kind of bursts out, and there are people around.

ALL the time. It's only weird when I forget that someone else is in the room.

I'm pretty sure NT's do this too. I know htis because I've been that other person in the room sometimes.

My highlight reel:

nearly-silently reciting the chorus to Modern Man's "Assisted Living" It wouldn't have been a problem, if the chorus were not "Give me some ass- give me some ass- give me some ass-isted living."

Having a rather heated, but nearly silent debate with myself, when someone asks me "What's up?" To which I reply with the classic "Um, nothing!"

Stepping out of the shower at camp to find out that yes, my bunkmates were within earshot, and yes they heard me singing the title song from "The Phantom of the Opera," and yes, they heard me try to hit Christine's notes, failing miserably.

ALL the time. It's only weird when I forget that someone else is in the room.

I'm pretty sure NT's do this too. I know htis because I've been that other person in the room sometimes.

My highlight reel:

nearly-silently reciting the chorus to Modern Man's "Assisted Living" It wouldn't have been a problem, if the chorus were not "Give me some ass- give me some ass- give me some ass-isted living."

Having a rather heated, but nearly silent debate with myself, when someone asks me "What's up?" To which I reply with the classic "Um, nothing!"

Stepping out of the shower at camp to find out that yes, my bunkmates were within earshot, and yes they heard me singing the title song from "The Phantom of the Opera," and yes, they heard me try to hit Christine's notes, failing miserably.