Talking to myself: the inner dialogue

In a work situation it helps me follow a process if there are lots of stages. So yes that's a good phrase, it is like a filing cabinet of information for work. Likewise I might do the same at home on the laptop, for example online banking.

It is also the same at home if I have stages, for example following a recipe, so I don't miss any ingredients. ( I have been known to do that). I do it too if following a knitting pattern or counting stitches. There is less chance of losing count if I say it out loud. (That brings me to another thing, I often count steps, or the number of scoops if taking compost out of a bag for no apparent reason and don't do that out aloud). 

Then there are the asking myself what I was doing situations when I arrive in a room and can't remember why. It's like my brain has to catch up. If I am out and trying to sort out how to get into somewhere with an intercom and they release a button I have been known to mutter out aloud, which could be embarrassing. 

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I’m always talking nonstop about different things. It’s like I’m talking to a group of people, like a teacher. I get so carried away and I’ll be chatting listing of all these facts about this cool bird I just saw and then I look up and realise it’s still just me and no one was there to listen.
At school when I was concentrating I used to just start talking, airing my thoughts is what my teacher Miss Bowen said and I liked that phrase so I still say it now.

Funny really how I’m utterly useless at talking to people and making small talk but I can talk to myself fluently.

Sometimes, when you're writing or typing stuff, it can help to read it back out loud, to gauge if ur makes grammatical sense. Plus, memos to self get spoken out loud.

Do you find it a more work related thing? Like a filing cabinet in the brain you're desperately sifting through? Or does it occur in other places, or under more stressful situations? 

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I realise that it's not necessarily and autism thing. People in general would ask themselves, "where did I put my keys?" It's usually a question. I think I tend to critique myself and others. Maybe an awkward exchange would lead me to ponder about what I could've done differently, were they in the wrong or me: that sort of thing. Although, I'm doing it out loud like I'm in The Wonder Years, narrating my own life.

It's annoying, but it does help me justify situations and my actions to them. Often, I don't even reach a positive conclusion.

I do. When I used to work in the office, my muttering was off putting for some. Now I work from home, no problem. I find it helps me to follow what I am doing at home and less likely to forget things. My autistic son also does it. 

I can use my inner voice, but find it easier out loud where appropriate.

I think we all talk to ourselves, being o the pre digital generation it still takes me by surprise when I see so many people apparently having conversations with themselves, then I realise they're on the phone and have ear plugs in and are not the mad axe murderers that they would of been seen as years ago.

If you are voicing your self talk inappropriately then it might be worth seeing you GP for a chat about it, things like Tourettes are quite common and don't all involve shouting obscenities at random strangers and you can get help from a psychologist to help with it, I know someone who suffered that way and felt a lot more in control afteerwards.

I think a lot of people do that. I do that a lot when playing my video games, or when I’m walking around in my bedroom. I will have a conversation with myself, it’s annoying if my mum hears me and she says who were you talking to. Maybe I’m too much like Gollum lol