Talking to yourself

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13 Aug 2008, 2:17 pm

Did you do this as a child? According to my mother, until I was about six I talked to myself perhaps more than I did to other people. I notice that I still talk to myself more than most people seem to.

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13 Aug 2008, 2:27 pm

Oh heavens yes. I talk to myself probably more than I talk to my husband. And as a child, I played alone a lot, and talked to myself/my dolls a great deal.

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13 Aug 2008, 2:41 pm

I'm pretty sure that is a human habit, not just an aspie one.

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13 Aug 2008, 2:51 pm

Sometimes I wonder when I'm NOT talking to myself!! ! Actually, I often talk to myself without realizing it...

So yes... I do it all the time!

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13 Aug 2008, 2:52 pm

I'm very prone to talking to myself, and I don't find it embarrassing. It's not like I'm hearing voices or anything, I'm just using it as a tool to help me through thinking something. No one has said, but if they did they'd probably get a condescending comment from me.

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13 Aug 2008, 2:57 pm

I talk to myself a lot my dad actually encouraged me to do so when I was little ^_^

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13 Aug 2008, 3:01 pm

Yep I do that, when I was a kid and now too, only a lot less than I was a kid. I could tell myself jokes and puns as a kid and ended up laughing really loud. I have learned not to do that anymore... but sometimes.... :lmao:

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13 Aug 2008, 3:07 pm

When I was in elementary school I would walk around the playground talking to myself.

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13 Aug 2008, 3:08 pm

MELODY-S wrote:

I'm pretty sure that is a human habit, not just an aspie one.

Even to the extent I was when I was four or five? My mother had problems with me having loud conversations with myself on the train.

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13 Aug 2008, 3:45 pm

i talk to myself, my AS son who is six has long drawn out conversations with himself.
especially when he is relaxing in the bath.
it doesnt embarass either of us.

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13 Aug 2008, 4:13 pm

donkey wrote:

my AS son who is six has long drawn out conversations with himself.
especially when he is relaxing in the bath.
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That's cute. My son was silent, speech was and still is hard.
I talk to myself to guide my actions.

I found myself talking to myself at work the other day, I must be starting to feel more at home in my new workplace. I also found myself singing as I was walking down the corridor.
I'm getting to the stage where I don't care if people think I'm strange.

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13 Aug 2008, 5:45 pm

haha kinda my mother dont get online stuff and he acsually thougth i was coming grazy while talking to other players in cs

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13 Aug 2008, 6:05 pm

.... yes... i do. all the time.

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