Is this really odd?

I don’t know, Wrestle, what do you think?
W: well I don’t know, what about you.
w3: don’t ask me.
(sorry, couldn’t resist acting like a smart ass)

I almost never talk to myself, I always was annoyed when someone did it near me because I’d ask them what they said and they’d never clarify. Why say it out loud with only two people in a room if it’s not meant for their ears?

I’ve gotten used to it though, accidental immersion therapy—all my managers talk to themselves.

I presume it’s categorized as “crazy” because it’s not an accepted social norm. Perhaps we should have a “Support the Talkers” day where we all spend the day talking to ourselves and thus show support for the oppressed. ;)

As for me, I just find it annoying and distracting. It’s in the same category as the coworker who hums atonally and non-musically to herself and drives me mad.

I talk to my self all the time, I find it very good to compose ones mind, but never in a place where other ppl are around.

yeah I didn’t mean aloud with other people around because that is odd do it in your head ha

That’s not talking to yourself, that’s following a thought process.

Everyone talks to themselves in their unspoken monologues in their heads. On the surface, there’s no reason to speak that out loud. Some people who are distracted, disturbed, or mentally abnormal do, especially in fiction, and there are cultural-level persistent conversations about that, so that’s where that comes from.

And so, it’s a social stigma which isn’t the truth.

I talk to myself all the time.

My boyfriend has actually managed to create a number of phrases that we think it is perfectly normal for him to start saying to himself because he just says them all the time.

I’ll walk myself through things or talk to myself if I’m thinking about it. Most people do at some point, for some reason. But it is not socially acceptable.

It’s not so much the talking, it’ when it escalates into an argument and you come to blows with yourself.

Seriously, schizophrenics often hear voices in their heads and when they respond that has always been a sign of mental illness, It is a very different matter than trying to remember something by repeating it aloud or working out what you are going to say to your boss about why you were late.

I was told that when working through something (a task, a problem, etc.) it’s called external processing. Some people, particularly auditory learners, need to hear the process.

talking to yourself gives answers to your thoughts. on a deeper level, it’s prayer.

I talk to myself aloud when I’m multi-tasking too many things at once. For example, when I work visitation at the jail – I’m (1) searching for warrants on each person while (2) checking the inmate’s visitor schedule while (3) entering information on the computer while (4) calling the housing unit while (5) connecting the housing unit phone up to the visitor phone while (6) writing the information down to sign out the visit when it’s over while (7) giving out visitor passes to class instructors or attorneys while (8) asking the next person in line who they are visiting. Repeated 120 times in succession, on average

If I don’t enunciate the numbers when connecting housing units to visitors, it gets lost in all the other numbers jumbled in my brain.

After a couple of hours doing this on a Sunday afternoon, I’m lucky to speak coherent sentences to anyone, including myself.

I talk to myself out loud a LOT. It’s receded a bit since I got access to you people.

it’s healthy to talk to yourself and can actually stimulate parts of your brain that can help you solve your own problems or find your keys (the temporal lobe)

it’s also in a way kind of like writing in a journal. Sometimes i talk to myself if i don’t know what to do about something or if there is something i want to say to someone that i never get to say. It helps at least get it out and sometimes it even helps to make sense of it.

it also helps with memory. if you are trying to memorize something you remember with your eyes as well as your mouth and ears instead of just your eyes.

i think when people say it’s crazy it’s from people that do it all the time that have multiple conversations and talk to themselves as well as responding as another personality.

@tedibear lurve for external processing. I call it vociferous cogitation, as in: “I wasn’t talking to myself, I was cogitating vociferously!” (or maybe just thinking out loud.)

At any rate, I find myself when I find myself distracted from a task that takes concentration, like trying to follow a new recipe, or using precise measurements on a home-improvement project.