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[–] 76 points 11 months ago (8 children)

That would never be me. I'm constantly talking to myself. People think I'm crazy, but I think I'm just bursting with ideas!

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    It would be me, except I swear a lot under my breath when I run into problems with software or things. In two languages simultaneously, even.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)
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    English and a language that's highly inflective and flexible. So I can't decide if it's worse than C++, but that still seems unlikely.

    The upside is that a handful of swearword roots produce a vast array of actual meanings. And, we have compound swearings too! Stuff like ‘ballscockwhore cuntfuck’ is entirely possible, with shades of meaning even.

    I had to give up talking via swearing at a previous job, because I realized I had trouble coming up with regular words for the things I meant.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Dude you're not alone, talk to myself all the time. When I am caught I just tell people I was needing an expert opinion. Its gets a good laugh and people don't think I'm crazy. Agatha Christina would play out the dialog in her novels to herself outloud. Most people with an active imagination does this.

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  • [–] 43 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Nah, I talk the most when I am alone.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Do people really not talk to themselfs? They should! It's not "crazy" if you know there isn't another person there. But it's ok to think out loud. It's even good because sometimes you can hear how you sound and change. I like it and this is a type of self therapy

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Yup, I’ve always externalized my thoughts when alone. Got teased for it occasionally when I was caught, but always seemed weird to me that people don’t. One of the many reasons I’m probably on the spectrum, but it’s not causing any harm.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)
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    mostly about how much I hate myself and I'm worthless, but in a casual, non mean way.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    You should cut your face off and eat it.

    Not many people have done that so you'd no longer be worthless, and you'd be a hideous monstrosity and hideous monstrosities have shock value so you'd have value, too.

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  • [–] 21 points 11 months ago

    Apparently, you don't own a cat.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I cannot relate. I live with my GF but even if she leaves for the night I'll start talking to my self somehow.

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    You lucky BS bastards... And I have to answer the same question to my kid every 5 seconds.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago

    For months at a time unfortunately! Lmfao- Use the phone+ call friends and family- people aren't around forever

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    Glad I'm not that weirdo. I'll still talk to my cat.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Aside from work, most of the talking I do at home is joking around with my cat. He has no idea what the fuck is going on but I crack myself up and he meows his little heart out like he's watching John Mulaney

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You don't talk to yourself?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Lived alone during COVID.

    Went months

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    4, because I work partly remote so there have been occasions where I have no reason to leave the house or see another person for four days. I’m introverted so it’s kind of nice, but it’s probably not healthy

    Edit: and my dog is not mine: I share custody with my ex (it’s actually her dog) so that’s only half a week

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    No because I have a job and leave my house.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    I always talk to my cats

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    This is why cats exist

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    I have a remote work job. Sometimes,I don’t talk to another human for many days. It doesn’t bother me too much:

    I talk to my dogs. Honestly, my dogs have probably kept me alive and well as much as I keep them alive and well.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    I battled severe depression, drug/alcohol abuse/addiction. I was living in the Colorado rockies in the cold mountains with out connection to civilization for weeks on end... im unofficially on rhe spectrum too. I think ive gone a couple days saying nothing, definitely.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Nope, I talk to my dog and three times a day we walk around the block and inevitably someone will wave and say hello

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    when I was a bachelor. what bachelor hasn't.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Also, you apparently have a sore throat. Who knew?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Back when I was single, that happened often during my vacations

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Got too many vocal cats I talk back to. Don't think I can go an hour unless I'm sleeping.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    If I didn't talk to myself out loud or use voice-to-text on my phone to leave internet comments, I'd be on day 5 of vocal silence right now.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    I solve this problem by occasionally yelling at bafflingly stupid current events, as recounted by various youtubers/podcasts.

    Gotta keep up that ability to insult on the fly.

    Stretch those creativity brain pathways, in addition to your vocal cords.

    Either that or cursing myself out for writing bafflingly bad code, from time to time.

    ... Less insanely, I also sing, and... have neighbors I talk to, go outside from time to time, chat up randos.

    I have an internal monologue nearly all the time.

    Sometimes I just outwardly verbalize it.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    I'm highly reclusive, so this happens a lot.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I have gone days without talking to other people but I don't think I've ever gone a waking hour without talking.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Yes. Or the only words I've said aloud were Insane Clown Posse lyrics.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I find myself talking to my terminal out loud

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    not alone but forgetting how to talk. quit answering phone

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    I got this killer up inside me. I can’t talk to my mother, so I talk to my diary.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    When I moved to my current house, my wife and kid were at our previous house for a while. I deliberately chose this house for its isolation, so for a while the only people I really spoke to were local cashiers every few days. (Side note: my kid was three at the time and had left a toy triceratops on the back of one of the commodes the day we signed for the house. I never thought a toilet would make me miss someone so much.)

    Anyway, I work remotely and had a daily virtual meeting. Most days, that meeting was the first and last time I spoke. I also had some kind of long lived sinus infection going on, so not only did I speak pretty rarely, until I opened my mouth I wasn't even sure if I'd have a voice that day.

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