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Vyn
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I talk to myself constantly. Often taking two sides of an argument. There's Vyn, then there's Myrryr. One plays Devil's advocate in any given scenario, and the other plays the opposite. Or, one plays the id, the other the super ego. I'm never sure just which I am at any given time and which I'm arguing with. But I do it out loud very often. Apparently it gets on the nerves of people I work with from time to time.
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twychy
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I talk out loud. |
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Odin
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I talk to myself a lot. Even when I am not talking out load I cannot think verbally unless there is at lease some sub-vocal motor movements in my tongue and throat.
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blackcat
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Joined: Nov 17, 2006
Age: 19
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Location: 10 miles south of sanity.
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Also, words that end in s are the bane of my existance. I cannot read like..the word "talks" or whatever without wanting to say it aloud. I cannot think a word that ends in s without trying to say it. (I cannot say the s sound on the ends of most words...my mouth is stupid or something. it comes out like "that sucktth" I think....I cannot really describe the sound that I make. but most people don't seem to notice unless I am tired or have been talking for a long time in which case I don't put the end on the word at all making that sucks "that suck".) 
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AnnaLemma
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All the time. I once shared an office with a boss who was certainly on the spectrum, and who talked to herself non-stop while she worked. Until that time I tried very hard not to do it myself, but here was an accomplished, acclaimed PhD in Astrophysics who was totally unashamed at talking to herself in front of other people. I then relaxed my rules and have done it ever since, although my aim is to keep it to times that I'm alone. My NT husband does it somewhat, but since he often wears a wireless earpiece, few people notice (I can tell the difference!)
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Ravenchild
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Yes. It's often the only way I can have a sensible conversation! 
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Oisin
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| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:55 am Post subject: |
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| I do. I have meetings with myself, ask myself questions, and tell myself what to do. It was much worse in the past, there were other invisible people there to which I talked out loud, when I tried to stop this I got myself in a psychosis. So I still do this nut then in my head. |
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Kaizer
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Joined: Apr 20, 2009
Age: 21
Posts: 97
Location: my brain meats
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| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:06 am Post subject: |
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| yes i always seem to have a running commentary in this strange brain of mine i do wish the wittyness of my brain would come out of my mouth sometimes though lol |
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FaithHopeCheese
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Joined: Oct 18, 2009
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Location: I think I'm lost
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I only complain out loud to a hypothetical listener.  As in: "Uggghhh I hate this PRINTER" or *slams down phone* "A**HOLE".. I'm sure it annoys my coworkers....
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b9
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| Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:44 am Post subject: |
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| i never talk to myself. i do not bother talking to myself because i know i would not be interested in what i had to say. |
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superboyian
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I talk to myself all the time like there's another person in the room... But I don't do it in front of everyone, or they probably might think i'm going insane.... I still kinda do it in public places without even realising im doing it... I do get a couple of weird looks at times.
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ElysianDream
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| X_Parasite wrote: | | Technically, I talk to a hypothetical listener, not myself. |
Me too, but only sometimes. I rarely address myself. Sometimes I might say 'you idiot! or come on, you can do better than this!' like I'm my own personal coach or something. Sometimes I'm good on myself and say 'you are a bloody genius!' or something like that lol. |
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tektek
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Location: Brisbane, Australia.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:13 am Post subject: Re: Talking to yourself |
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| blackcat wrote: | | Does anyone else do this? When I am alone (and occasionally when I am not and forget that fact) I will talk to myself. It kind of soothes my anxieties...maybe that is weird. I dunno. But I can have entire conversations as if there are other people around. I try to confine them to my head but occasionally they escape my lips and people look at me like WTF and want to know what the heck I'm muttering about. |
this is quite similar to what i do. i will also replay conversations, for the greater part i will confine them to my mind but sometimes the words escape from my mouth... and sometimes i forget about not being alone. 
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Psygirl6
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| Yes, this I think is because my brain and mind are extremely active. I heard part of Asperger's is that you think your thoughts out loud, sometime really loud. Mine has gotten worse as I got older, but I have found if I held things back, I feel even more like crap, especially when I am stressed out about something and it is in my head, if I do not talk about it, out loud or to anyone, it stays and disturbs me more. Once I talk it out loud, I am okay. Unfortunately, now that I am going out in the community more and now going to school, after being isolated in a residence and being in situations where the only people contact I had was with people who that disabled who could not communicate, and the ones who did, were not as high functioning and have severe problems with interacting, where I was not able to have a regular conversation with them. This is pretty much how I communicated, was with myself. Though I always had this since I was a child, but when I was younger I did not do this in public. Now since the whole 10 years of this residence stuff and not being around anyone who would lsiten or talk with me, it has gotten worse. |
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cat42
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| Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 9:45 am Post subject: |
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i talk both to myslef and with myself, but usually i try to confine it to when im alone,usually out in my studio supposedly working.
i talk both in my head and out loud, depending on the situation, but never out loud in company, althoug i can be talking in my head and zone out from whats going on around me |
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