TheHouseholdCat Phoenix


Joined: Mar 01, 2012 Posts: 667 Location: Berlin, Germany
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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All the time. When I'm alone.
That's why you'd be uneasy in public. You can't be yourself. People who talk to themselves are freaks. They're laughable. So you keep quiet. Uhuh... It's this insane idea of "normal" people. There is no normal. This ideal does a lot of damage to everyone. _________________ EXPANDED CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
"It's how they see things. It's a way of bringing class to an environment, and I say that pejoratively because, obviously, good music is good music however it's created, however it's motivated." - Thomas Newman |
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megymegan Tufted Titmouse


Joined: Feb 23, 2012 Age: 22 Posts: 44 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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Usually if I ever talk to myself out loud, it's for telling myself off. Or for trying to stop myself from thinking something that makes me feel sad, I'll tell myself (my brain) to shut up. Which is kinda funny, thinking about it! Speaking aloud to tell something silent to be quiet.
Weird. |
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TheHouseholdCat Phoenix


Joined: Mar 01, 2012 Posts: 667 Location: Berlin, Germany
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Niniel wrote: | I often have conversations in my head, to rehearse for the real thing, or replay conversations that could have gone better in my head, I am usually able to keep my lips still though. I think  |
It's the only way to be!
No, seriously... what do other people do? Just list things they're about to do?
I once had a conversation on how people think. Since then I can't stop thinking about it. I like to think in sentences.
Are other people's heads just empty?
I may never know... _________________ EXPANDED CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
"It's how they see things. It's a way of bringing class to an environment, and I say that pejoratively because, obviously, good music is good music however it's created, however it's motivated." - Thomas Newman |
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TheHouseholdCat Phoenix


Joined: Mar 01, 2012 Posts: 667 Location: Berlin, Germany
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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| megymegan wrote: | Usually if I ever talk to myself out loud, it's for telling myself off. Or for trying to stop myself from thinking something that makes me feel sad, I'll tell myself (my brain) to shut up. Which is kinda funny, thinking about it! Speaking aloud to tell something silent to be quiet.
Weird. |
I also do that in my head.
I think I actually started doing that five years ago.
But yeah... I do that, too.
It makes sense, actually, because usually you like to be on your own. Because other people often make you feel uneasy. Even those that you know.
I call it compensation. _________________ EXPANDED CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
"It's how they see things. It's a way of bringing class to an environment, and I say that pejoratively because, obviously, good music is good music however it's created, however it's motivated." - Thomas Newman |
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nerdymama Pileated woodpecker


Joined: Jun 24, 2011 Posts: 189
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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I talk to myself out loud in public. If I notice someone hears me then I just explain what I was thinking about.
I also rehearse conversations if I am unsure about how they are going to turn out. |
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TheHouseholdCat Phoenix


Joined: Mar 01, 2012 Posts: 667 Location: Berlin, Germany
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| nerdymama wrote: | I talk to myself out loud in public. If I notice someone hears me then I just explain what I was thinking about.
I also rehearse conversations if I am unsure about how they are going to turn out. |
It never works for me though. I always f*** conversations up, no matter how often I think about them. I can think about them while doing it and it still won't work. _________________ EXPANDED CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
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mglosenger Velociraptor


Joined: Aug 20, 2011 Age: 140 Posts: 445
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:28 pm Post subject: |
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I figure everything is talking to myself, so I might as well do it when there's no people obviously nearby. I also talk aloud to myself, also known as the entire universe. Sometimes I write posts to myself to make me feel better about me. It typically works.. which must be why I still do it.
I too 'rehearse' conversations in my head although they tend not to go how I expect regardless. The main thing I do now is not worry if I have a 'bad' conversation, because I tend to be hypercritical of everything which includes me and so it's inevitable that I will hypercriticize.
I also inevitably 'replay' conversations in my head, to figure out if I really enjoyed them or not. If I say something I thought was particularly impressive, I will replay that part a few times. I suppose the hypercriticism idea goes both ways.
We're all winners. |
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nerdymama Pileated woodpecker


Joined: Jun 24, 2011 Posts: 189
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Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Sometimes I just talk out loud and say random nonsense because I haven't said very much all day and I just want to.. Ill just blurt random things out |
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Candles15 Pileated woodpecker


Joined: May 31, 2011 Posts: 175 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:27 am Post subject: |
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| Doubutsu wrote: | | Candles15 wrote: | I always have conversations with myself
I usually do it when I need to make a decision about something and my personality splits in half and I argue with myself until I come to a conclusion. Other times I go in to day dreams, where I'm me and my mind is someone else and we have a conversation that I imagined in my head. |
Me too, but it has become more stronger this days, today I have been pacing and day dreaming at my bedroom almost the whole day. I get good answers from that conversations, sometimes I write them down. I don't move my lips, the only problem I have is that people thing I'm staring to something or someone instead of the air. |
Aha, same! And when you look up, you realise you've been staring at a person or a thing, the whole time; Very awkward! I sometimes write them down too, so I can have a look later, when I'm struggling with something.
| Doubutsu wrote: | | Candles15 wrote: |
Now this is sort of weird; Talking to myself has gotten so bad, When I'm feeling down, my mind starts telling myself jokes from the past to cheer me up. |
I should try that. |
It helps, or replay scenes from comedies you watch, that's good too!
| Doubutsu wrote: | | Candles15 wrote: | | Also I never look at myself as "me", I always see myself in second person. |
In my mind I use to refer to me as "we" or "you" more often than "I". |
Yep, I'm "me" and my mind is "you" |
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jojobean sacred clown


Joined: Aug 13, 2009 Posts: 3341 Location: In Georgia sipping a virgin pina' colada while the rest of the world is drunk
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:51 am Post subject: |
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I have full blown 2 sided conversations with myself outloud, usually at home though, when I am out of the house I can contain it all in my head, but I prefer to practice conversations outloud to hear how they sound.
When mom overhears me talking to myself, she will ask who are you talking to??
I joke with, "SHHH I am having a conversation with myself, dont interupt"
She jokes back with...ohh pardon me for my rudeness
Jojo _________________ All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
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Paulie_C Sea Gull


Joined: Jan 05, 2012 Age: 28 Posts: 246 Location: Birmingham, UK
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 2:17 am Post subject: |
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| MrXxx wrote: | I never answer myself. I don't need to. The people in my head do. Figured that's what they were there for.  |
Haha, well put. I too think things through an inordinate amount in my head, things that have, will and are happening. And it is like a conversation up there between me and myself. My lips move a bit sometimes but that will mostly be when I know I'm alone and I can let the crazy out . |
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Aprilviolets Slave of my ginger cat.


Joined: May 07, 2011 Posts: 1247
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:42 am Post subject: Talking to yourself. |
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| I do that too but I call it thinking out loud I don't do it in public though. |
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Oldout Phoenix


Joined: Feb 10, 2012 Posts: 1539 Location: Reading, PA
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Just tell others that you're singing. |
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AspieOtaku Leader of the Otaku Legion


Joined: Feb 18, 2012 Age: 30 Posts: 5870 Location: Mountain View, California, United States
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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I do it all the time usually when I am alone but when someone walks in and notices me talking to myself it gets awkward. I usually talk to myself to keep track of things or just to talk to myself because theres nobody else to talk to.  _________________ Your Aspie score is 193 of 200
Your neurotypical score is 40 of 200
You are very likely an aspie
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Justcurious Tufted Titmouse


Joined: Jul 23, 2009 Posts: 41 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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It is when you start thinking that those around you are telepaths and know what goes on in your head that you have to worry....
On a serious note I am sure this is completely normal in everyone to a degree. Otherwise what would people think about, nothing? |
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