Inner dialogue

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So how much do you "talk to yourself" mentally. I find that I often do this except when im talking to people which is odd considering the difficulties I have socialising. I find that my mind tends to go silent. I fin that most of my realisations that im doing something "wierd" are pure concept. I'll see my hand curled into a fist and the concept of "weird" arises. I dont think

"Hmm is that weird
["google inside tm" web crawler trawls neural pathways for anything pertaining to fists]
oh timothy did mention that a while back... hmmm I need corroboration however"



Sometimes I verbalise my inner discourses and will have full blown conversations out loud "to myself"> I know there's noone there but still it helps to verbalise my thoughts.

I have a pretty much constant inner dialogue with some aspect of myself (I guess). Like I can take on two different viewpoints and discuss them with myself (and I actually can take on the opposing viewpoints.) I've been like this as long as I can remember. I don't even think about it much anymore. But some of my best conversations have been with myself.

Constant, and often I verbalise it without being aware. I must seem crazy when I do. Thanks God,.i still know I am not talking to people that don't exist.

This is not an Aspie trait. Everyone without significant brain damage does this. It's called "thinking."

Would you say the voice in your head takes on acoustic properties? Does it sound loud, say?

Did I at any point ask whether it was an aspie trait?


Oh no I dont "hear it" its rather difficult to explain actually. Its in my accent but it doesnt have acoustical properties which seems to be a paradox worthy of discussion in its own right

I have almost no inner dialogue and don't think in this running commentary way. This lack of inner dialogue is autistic trait found in a few studies so far. The presence of inner dialogue is normal. Many NTs have told me that they can't get their inner dialogues to shut up. I sometimes talk to myself out loud too, and that is not discourse, but instead repetition of a few words.

There was a good thread about this very topic a while back: http://www.wrongplanet.net/postxf233003-0-15.html

Thinking doesn't necessarily include an inner dialogue. An inner dialogue is a conversation carried out in your head, whereas thinking in itself is merily things that spring to mind. Might not even be words included.

I can definitely relate to the loops. Im caught in an "I have ASD I dont have ASD loop" Before it was an "Im ugly im attractive loop" and so on and so forth.I also think quite heavily in pictures however. Probably a 70 30 mix

Do you actually think those sentences, or is that just a feeling you have? I tend to have sentences stuck in my head, that doesn't really have any significance. A sentence that keeps popping into mind is, translated into English "imagine being allergic to mushrooms", which of course, wouldn't really be weird at all, and is a completely meaningless thought. I often get the urge to verbalize these thoughts, but I usually keep from doing that.

I have concepts and images more than sentences. I can know something and have a hard time putting it into words and sentences. I feel like I lose a lot of what I know when I put it into words.

ah the loop is conceptual. Its a subject if you will on which my thougths have become (un)hinged. I'll obsess over those ideas endlessly relating everything (And I mean everything) back to them.

Sentences I write or script sometimes start looping in my head because I repeat things a lot.

I suppose there is crossover with OCD here. The benedictions used by obsessives to ward off iminent doom could be considered loops

I have a lot of inner dialogue. Well, I spent the ages of 5-14 being a selective mute so I had a lot of conversations with people sitting right next to me in my head. I was reading awhile ago, I think it was a thread here, about how some people don't hear that inner voice when they read. Very strange, not only do I have this voice it takes on other accents, especially if it helps me read better. For example when I write my journal entries I have Stephen Fry's voice in my head and my writing takes on his style. I read his whole autobiography with this voice in my head too.

I still have the inner monologue when around people but I think the type of environment I'm in puts me in a state of shock and over stimulation. I've still got inner thoughts but it's not as strong. I certainly can't hear Fry in my head any longer. One thing I have less of when around people is creative ideas. It's just a very chaotic place to be and my that rich world of thoughts just gets turned down.

I speak many of my thoughts out loud too. To quote one rather attractive Doctor Who: "My head is just too full of stuff."