Living in your own world?

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I have noticed that since a child. I have a tendency to have imaginary conversations with people in my life, or people who will not talk to me...and to fantasise about different scenarios.. I seem to spend more time in my own head than out of it, and often get caught talking to myself... It is just almost instinct to talk to myself now... I do it all the time. And I imagine conversations in my head, sometimes even voicing them out loud.

Do others get this and is this an Autistic/Aspergers thing? I find it a little uncomfortable when I am walking along talking to myself and suddenly am made aware of it by someone coming the other way.

I tend to laugh to myself a lot, but not talk.

im exactly the same apart from i dont do it in public. i sometimes forget my doors open and start talking to mysedlf though.usually made up people or people i like that actually exist. and now and then someone i dont like. just so i can argue with them. and i always win, naturally

What a small world, because I talk to myself all the time, but not as much in very public places.

i do it a lot.
i am uncomfortable with the habit because of it's association in my mind of insanity.

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I tend to have conversations with myself it my head. and sometimes answer outloud. I'm fully aware it's me I'm talking to, it just seems more amusing than thinking straight, and works easier for conflicting choice.


. . . Normal people don't suddenlly burst out laughing because they think of something funny? I thought they sometimes did too.

ive noticed its got so bad with me the last few years, that my social anxiety actually extends to these imaginary people in my head. its got to the point now where i feel anxious and stupid just walking across the room, if there are imaginary people in there. like i get nervous about them watching me. is that weird?

Graelwyn, I feel like I just read a description of myself, except instead of talking aloud to myself, I just mouth the words.

Thank De(non existent) Lord that I am not alone in this.
It seems so insane that I talk to myself so much.

Gee, I internalize it. I "talk to myself" ALL THE TIME running through scenarios just like you mentioned. But I do it 100% in my head, with no mouthing of words, etc... I OFTEN do it in the shower. I think it might be an AS thing.

BTW I also travel terrain like this. Just this afternoon I basically browsed some stores, on the plane, to determine where to go when I landed.

i'd prefer to live in a fantasy world compaird to the real one. too boring

Yeah.

"You jus' livin' in y'own lil' worl', aren'chya." -My Landlord

Hey Graelwyn
I do it too. Everybody does have a certain ammount of 'self talk' thought. I seem to have more than most! I sometimes catch myself when Im so absorbed in this talk, usually thinking up perfect retorts to previous nasty comments or having a hypothetical conversation with people who in real life I know Ill never talk to. I get quite a fright sometimes coming back to reality because I was so oblivious to what was going on around me.

I do that imagining too, though not talking to myself so much. And not in public. I imagine the real people in my life, and me, if we were involved in disasters... like if there was a shooting at my school, what might happen? What did I want to happen? What could happen? I'd create the whole story using the real characters in my life, with myself having an important part in it somehow.