Do you talk to yourself?

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I talk out loud when I'm alone, talk to myself, occasionally caricature potential responses to myself, talk at inanimate objects, into space. I do it more when people aren't around. For me, speaking isn't just something I use to communicate with other people, it also helps me clarify my own thoughts. Putting them into words and hearing them makes me consider them differently. In the case of inanimate objects it's usually a vocalization of my frustration at my inability to understand why something isn't working. Yelling at my computer, for instance, helps me vent before I have a more extreme outburst.

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Yes, I do talk to myself.

Yes, I tend to as, in my case, I feel it helps me to feel relaxed or the mere fact, I do it as a means of stimming if you could look at it that way.

People commented on it so I've stopped doing it, at least at school and at work.

I do the same thing at school all the time and feel stupid when people look at me.

Yes though I normally only do it in private

Sometimes, I'm the only person around smart enough for me to have an intelligent conversation with.


Correction: (~)(All of the time)

I mumble to myself all the time, somtimes I have a hard time separating a thought process from the corresponding vocalization. i find that its helpful to practice potential conversations out loud so when they accually take place i dont have to react on the fly. somtimes i practice in front of a mirrior so i can try to add corresponding facial expressions and so forth. I find that i am able to interact socialy better if i have pre-planned conversations already memorized. just a coping mechanism I use...

I do it when I go for walks. I quiet down, if someone approaches (though it's obvious to them what I was doing). I figure what I am saying is private, and shouldn't be any of their concern. I am the same way when talking with another person. I really don't understand people who loudly converse (especially on the phone) when near someone who is not involved. I don't see a difference between talking to some disembodied voice on a cell phone or one in my mind - except that the one in my mind is clever and there is no time lag.

I think I do a sort of verbal stimming..I am always making mouth noises...I have nonsensical words that I say to myself over and over again....Dopey doh..dopey doh......I also sing ALOT to myself...I am constantly singing in my head. I frequently sings songs to myself about whatever I am doing. It helps me mantain my train of thought.
I have managed to acquire a little more tact as I have gotten older in regards to singing in public..but I still do alot....I will sing at the dinner table in resturaunts...etc...When I was a kid I would sing loudly in the halls at school..and when I was much younger i made uncontrollable quacking noises and whatnot in class...that was part of the reason I was so popular (just kidding)

Well, occasionally, when I'm thinking really hard, but not really. And certainly not in public. Most of the time I can keep it in. And when I do say something, it's not my thoughts that I'm explaining to myself, it's what I would literally say should the event in my mind happen.

Yes, I also talk to myself and my computer or other objects that I interact with when I am alone, respond out loud when I hear something someone says on TV, say something out loud accidentaly when I am upset and thinking it (happens also in public when the bus is very late and I get all frustrated) and I also "conjure up someone-usually real or literary-to talk to and imagine their responses."

I am a bit embarassed when someone turns and looks at me, but I forget it a short while later and don't let it bother me.

Usually when I do that it's because I will need to tell someone something (like my doctor, or co-worker) and I will hold the conversation multiple times in my head as a sort of preparation, ordering my thoughts as of what I want to say, etc.

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Funny story: the rpoblem with my family is that my parents speak two completely different languages which means that i've had to learn two languages in order to communicate with them. Anyway when i first went to preschool i would regularly talk to myself in one of me home languages because i was afraid that i would forget how to speak it. i still talk to myself- whenever i'm alone

I used to a lot but not as much now.

I talk to myself sometimes, sometimes it calms me down..It usually just depends on the situation XD