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Talking to you.
Elizzybeth:
I get the sense that the whole "replaying conversations in your head and coming up with better answers" thing is pretty common--there's even that French phrase, "l'esprit de l'escalier" (wit of the staircase, thinking up comebacks only after you've left a conversation). Regardless, I do that constantly, and I agree that it's debilitating to one's social confidence.
I don't really talk to myself much out loud, in general, but I do sing to myself when I'm happy. And I laugh at socially inappropriate moments sometimes?
Eris:
Yeah, I do the whole "replay a conversation" when I finally come up with the perfect witty line that escaped me at the time. Normally that is at least 5 minutes after the person has walked off, though.
I also talk to inanimate objects a lot. I tell my plants how well they're going; tell the kettle it is almost boiled; make encouraging noises to my car when it is having trouble starting or getting up a hill; Lecture my phone when it turns itself off; Yell at the TV (but I think most people do that one). Oh, I also will mumble along with a book if I am really into it, like, if there is a passage describing what someone said and an action, I will mumble the words and make expressions that fit and wave my arms a little or something. I don't think anyone has noticed that yet, apart from me.
Hat:
--- Quote from: ViciousWarGoose on 27 Feb 2009, 13:49 ---More just muttering to myself really, sometimes with the odd pew pew pew laser sound.
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Liz:
I talk to myself all the time, either when I'm stressed, cleaning, or trying to work something out. Oddly enough, when I sew I talk to myself with a fake English accent. No idea where that comes from but it amuses me greatly when I am hemming a pair of pants and find myself saying "oh bloody hell I've run out of bobbin thread."
Lines:
I will say things to myself, but I do not hold conversations with myself. And sometimes I will sing what I'm saying just because. I've also been told that I make sounds when I'm thinking and I don't even realize it.
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