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I talk to myself when I am thinking, especially if what I am thinking about relates to emotional processing. I have never recorded myself doing this, but I don’t think I vocalise complete sentences. While I’m processing, I repeat a contextually relevant word or phrase over and over again, even if I think I’ve moved past it in my head.
I find myself doing this in public sometimes (whoops), but with silent mouth movements. Earphones help me avoid looking dodgy or like I’m hallucinating.
My daughter called me out as weird because she heard me whispering to myself the other day....
I talk through everything aloud. Like rubber duck debugging but for almost everything. It's like a word sanity check about my project.