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I talk in my head, I narrate everything I do, I talk out loud in the car and in public and in the house... I think part of this is because of how much time I spend alone?? Who cares though thinking is so much easier like this.
Jul 17, 2025
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π£I do this all the time.
Like, more often than I'm actually talking to people.
I have ADHD, and frankly, just a lot going on in my head.
When I say my thoughts out loud, they become more real and tangible.
It's a lot easier to focus on what I'm thinking if I'm saying it to myself, so I say everything to myself out loud.
The other day my boss walked in on me - working a shift along - monologuing to myself about an artist I was listening to on my earbuds. I didn't even apologize. Damn straight I'm talking to myself. This is important stuff.
The other day my boss walked in on me - working a shift along - monologuing to myself about an artist I was listening to on my earbuds. I didn't even apologize. Damn straight I'm talking to myself. This is important stuff.
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π¬I have a pretty constant drone of inner dialogue in my head throughout the day. It narrates every second of every day, and sometimes creeps out through my mouth especially when i'm alone. when i'm alone i start talking to the void like i'm livestreaming or vlogging. i rarely have a moment where i am not talking to myself whether inside my head or outwardly, and sometimes when my ADHD goes into overdrive and I have like multiple streams of thought going at once, I will have to focus on reeling it back into one stream of thought again (kinda like that joe rogen "it's entirely possible" meme lol).
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π€so about half the time my "internal monologue" is my own voice giving myself instructions (ex. "ok, i have ten minutes to spare. what should i do? i think i'm gonna pull up pi.fyi and look at posts until i have to get back to work."). it's not literally me listening to my own voice because i am conceptualizing the voice much faster than i (or any human) is capable of speaking, but it definitely coherently exists in my head as a fleshy .mp3 file, and it is definitely my voice.
the other half of the time i am simulating social scenarios in my head. there are a variety of scenarios where i do this: sometimes i am actually rehearsing for a real social situation that is actually going to happen, sometimes i'm merely preparing for the possibility of a social situation, sometimes i'm trying to do a post-mortem on a situation that has already occurred so i can think about how to improve, and sometimes i'm just talking to an imaginary adversary in my head in order to find and plug holes in my worldview / philosophy etc.
adding the caveat that if i am alone (or merely think i am alone) the "internal" monologue / conversation frequently becomes an external one, and i am sometimes ambushed by my partner and / or roommates who occasionally hear me passionately arguing with an imaginary person and i've just kind of made peace with the fact that i am going to appear casually schizophrenic to anyone who catches me doing this because i genuinely believe that actively trying to rehearse conversations and arguments in advance is what helped me get over my debilitating introversion to the extent that i have
the other half of the time i am simulating social scenarios in my head. there are a variety of scenarios where i do this: sometimes i am actually rehearsing for a real social situation that is actually going to happen, sometimes i'm merely preparing for the possibility of a social situation, sometimes i'm trying to do a post-mortem on a situation that has already occurred so i can think about how to improve, and sometimes i'm just talking to an imaginary adversary in my head in order to find and plug holes in my worldview / philosophy etc.
adding the caveat that if i am alone (or merely think i am alone) the "internal" monologue / conversation frequently becomes an external one, and i am sometimes ambushed by my partner and / or roommates who occasionally hear me passionately arguing with an imaginary person and i've just kind of made peace with the fact that i am going to appear casually schizophrenic to anyone who catches me doing this because i genuinely believe that actively trying to rehearse conversations and arguments in advance is what helped me get over my debilitating introversion to the extent that i have
Oct 2, 2024
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