Do you have conversations with people inside your head? I'm not talking about "voices" like what schizophrenics deal with. Just internal representations of people you know, and having conversations with them, like practicing so that you're ready to have a real conversation with the real person if/when the situation arises...or maybe just "talking" something out with a person to get their "feedback" from their perspective, even though it's not something you would actually discuss with them.
Trying to figure out if this is "normal"...or "aspie"...or just me being kinda weird, lol.
Yes, I have both of those conversations. I practice for actual conversations, but also talk with people in my head about stuff I wouldn't actually discuss with them. It can be interesting and helpful.
I don't only do it with people I know though, but also with fictional characters from time to time. I just have interesting conversations with them in my head. I think that's a mechanism to cope with boredom and occasional loneliness while the practice conversations are actually there to make an upcoming conversation easier for me.
I've always divided my inner conversations like that (practice and imaginary conversations) and they are clearly different for me.
Oh, and sometimes I catch myself talking to an imaginary someone about my special interest after having found some new interesting information about it and not having anyone else around to talk about it.
Oh, yes. I do that as well. I read someting about it and a bit later I'm like: "Did you know that..."
I guess it's a good thing. Probably I should do it more even when there's someone around. People aren't always as interested in hearing about what I found out as I am, so it would be nice not to bother them with it too much. But sometimes I cannot really stop it.
All the time. The only problem is when I forget I had the conversation with phantom-husband instead of real-husband.
Oh yes-yes-yes...I've done this soooo many times with sooooo many people!!! Completely understand.
Me too. It can be kind of funny though. Once I had a long conversation with my mother in my head. I told her something in all details. A few days later I realized I hadn't told her about it at all. My first thought was: "Oh, now I'll have to tell her everything all over again. I thought I had already done that."
I do it all the time. It helps me with concentracion and get me calm, like when i'm in a really loud place and I start to talk with myself. The bad thing is that i tend to forget the world when I begin to talk like this
Exactly. It can even get dangerous for me from time to time because I tend to get so absorbed in my inner conversations that I don't pay enough attention to what's going on, so it's hard to concentrate on the traffic at the same time. That's one of the reasons I avoid too crowded city places. It's loud, I know I'll probably go into that mode and won't pay attention to my surroundings.
Another thing I do in those situations instead of inner dialogues is either singing in my head (usually only two lines of a song over and over again) or quoting movie conversations etc. in my mind. The effect is basically the same.
I always have internal conversations going on, I even write thread posts in my head most of which never actually get written.
I do that too.
I prepare posts in my head, re-write them, think about different sentences, word order etc., but in the end I don't write any of them because I always feel it's still not good enough or not relevant or whatever.
Furthermore I sometimes have trouble finding the right words at all, so I have a thread post in my mind, but it's not really in words, but more what I think of the topic without words (I don't always think in words) and then trying to create the thread post in my head is almost impossible because I cannot put my thoughts in words, so I just don't write it. That can be frustrating.
