talking with innerself all the time ... | ADHD Information

well, i don't remember when this started, but now everydays i seem to be
talking to myself (inner voice, not pronounced) all the time, during class,
working, reesting, eating, sleeping and etc.. the content could be everything,
sometime it's a joke that I want to tell others and i repeat it automatically in
my inner mind again and again and laugh by myself, sometime it's a random
thought about life and work, sometime it's a new idea, sometime it's
together with imagination about how I fight and argue with someone,
sometime it's public speaking practice in my head ...

i wonder is that something pretty normal? or a typical problem of ADD
disorder? mind to share a few of your own little stories about that? thank u!I BELIEVE IT'S A SPD THING. ivanhoe39059.8439351852i just looked at SPD, but seem that I am not so serious. i don't feel
uncomfortable sensing information or don't react when people talk to me.
it's usually that I very easily get bored / distracted with anything(lecutre,
reading, assignment, and etc.), that my mind tend to wander, and those
inner voices come.I allways talk to myself, and I'm often planning what I'm going to say. The problem for me with that, is that when I'm excited about what I'm talking about I'm not able to respont to what others are saying because I have allready "buffered" what I'm going to say for several minutes. I thing it's a bad habit that I've aquired because I got the diagnosis when i was 20 years old.
I allso find it hard to respond to questions that I haven't anticipated.

My wife say that when I'm on my own, if I'm in the livingroom and she's slumbering in the bedroom (I allways wake up early, since I started taking Ritalin), I often mumbles to myself, laughing out loud and such.

BTW, doesn't every one "think in words"? I allways do, even when I'm visualizing things, like a voice-over to the graphics. I don't know of any non-ADD people that admits to doing it. My husband has no problem turning off his mind and man that bugs me at times!

Especially like this week since I've been so crazy busy that I can't shut down my mind to sleep. I feel like I've been on a loto f speed and can't come down. (no I'm not on any meds or taking anything illegally, it's just the amount of work I've done in a short amount of time this week).
I seem to think in a combination of words and emotions when I speak to myself. Not many things are complete sentences, more just words that are linked together. Like if I saw a bird and told myself "Hey, there is a bird over there, look at it." I seem to have more of a thought proces like, "bird, there, look" but to me it as exactly as meaningful. I don't know if others feel like this or know anything about this, but thas how it seems to be for me haha.same thing happens to me, I talk to myself all the time since i can remember, theres been many times ive talked to myself in my head and without realising i crack up with laughter outloud and everyones saying whats so funny? or walking down the street or in a supermarket without realising it, whats in my head comes out and people can here me memorising the shopping list or some stupid thought or idea thats in my head and im saying it outloud and strangers look at me thinking what is she on?lol

Wow.. I do this all the time.. talk to myself, hell I even argue with myself sometimes

I've done this for as long as I can remember. It does cause me to seem like I'm 'in my own little world' when I start doing that when someone is talking to me. A lot of the time I'm talking to myself, repeating what I've just heard so I can try to process what they're saying (if it's important enough) if not.. it's random thoughts, planning etc..
I often start thinking about what I am thinking, too:

Where I'm currently working, my boss is Australian, so the work-language is Norwegian and English, and since I read and write a lot in English on the web too, I sometimes start to "think in English". One day on my way to work I suddenly thought "I'm thinking a lot in English nowadays" then I realized that I just thought that IN ENGLISH, and simultanously realized that I allso thought that in English! Hehe. Is that meta-thinking or what?

Wow! a Norwegian who self talks in English, Anyone else give out or praise themselves in a second language...

but the question is, only we ADD people do that? have ever your non-add partner/friends say the same thing??

Cha! Of course I do. I've even told my husband "Please don't interrupt, I'm talking to myself!" Luckily, he thought it was/is hilarious.

The way I look at it, I will never ever be lonely. I always take my best friend with me. I'll always have someone to share brilliant insights with, who always thinks my jokes are hilarious, someone who 'gets' me, and always listens to me. (btw, I am speaking of myself, not my husband.)

The non-ADD people I know don't admit to it if they do.