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blackcat
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 Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:38 pm Post subject: Talking to yourself |
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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.
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Graelwyn
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I do this a lot. My mother has noticed, my ex noticed, and I am sure people passing me in the street notice as I kind of do it all the time now.
I don't really care anymore if it is socially acceptable or not.
It is just a form of thinking out loud to me. Tho sometimes it is an out loud rant at being turned away from a store because I turned up 30 seconds after closing time. |
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Boomkin
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Age: 31
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Location: US
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| Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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I do this often. I talk about interests that most people aren't interested in hearing about. And if I'm preparing to be in a very public situation I practice answering (possible) questions and talking about topics I know will be brought up.
Sometimes I talk to myself for hours about certain subjects so I'll be prepared for a social situation. I anticipate questions that people may ask me and work out answers so I won't be surprised. It's not like I'm talking to invisible people... I know they arent there. It's just a matter of being prepared for a particular situation.
Yeah, sometimes I do it when other people are around. It just happens. Most of my friends are very cool and just accept that this is the way I am.
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Followthereaper90
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:35 am Post subject: |
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yes i do this...but alone 
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jamesp420
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Age: 17
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Location: Louisville, KY
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 12:47 am Post subject: |
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I do it all the time. I don't really see a problem with it, it's a great way to think. I'll even argue with myself sometimes, like if I'm looking for something
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X_Parasite
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Age: 19
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Location: Right here.
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| Technically, I talk to a hypothetical listener, not myself. |
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Acacia
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Age: 28
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:14 am Post subject: |
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All the time, out loud, sometimes even in the third person (addressing myself as a some one separate from myself).
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Sati
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Age: 24
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 2:32 am Post subject: |
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| I'm extra weird - I talk to myself in Japanese, but never in English. |
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nodice1996
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Age: 13
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Location: Michigan
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:23 am Post subject: |
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Yes, X Parasite gave it an appropriate description.
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fiddlerpianist
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Joined: May 01, 2009
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Location: The Autistic Hinterlands
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:29 am Post subject: |
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All the time. I do it somewhat silently as I walk down the street; my mouth moves, and a little sound comes out.
I have to admit, now that I have a child in my life, I just talk to him instead of to myself. It looks far more normal. 
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Hayes
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:12 am Post subject: |
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Yes I do...quite a bit as well. Sometimes it merges into the echolalia.
Sometimes I talk to myself by telling myself off for echolalia....and then to tell myself to stop it because its getting too weird.
I do it too loudly though and many times people hear if they are about (but I work at home so its not that bad.)
Sometimes I enjoy it and sometimes not depending on how I feel.
If I didn't 'stop' myself as it were, I'd do it a lot more probably.
I wouldn't mind but I don't always even agree with myself... |
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AMD
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:47 am Post subject: |
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Yes, all the time if i am alone. The only time i talk to myself out loud is if i am 100% alone and only if a am ranting...F* and SH** and all that come out. Actually, that isn't really talking to myself, i don't think. It is the converstions i WISH i could have with someone who p*sses me off, that i haven't been able to say these things to her face. 
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Boomkin
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:21 am Post subject: |
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| X_Parasite wrote: | | Technically, I talk to a hypothetical listener, not myself. |
I like this definition.
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persian85033
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| Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| I like that about the hypothetical listener. It's a more accurate description.lolI talk to them quite a bit. When there's no one around, or within hearing range, I can talk out loud. Otherwise, it must be confined to my head. I can have long discussions with myself on things that interest me. |
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Mike-09
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No I'm silent most of the time whether I'm in company or out of company although i do mutter the odd word under my breath if I'm annoyed or something.
I do most of the talking in my head |
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