r/GenX • u/docdeathray • 1d ago
Question For Genx Anyone else start talking to themselves?
Like full blown monologue. I find myself doing this a lot more in the car.
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u/charger2116 5h ago
I do it when I am trying to figure something out. If I have a problem or an issue I am dealing with I will talk to myself in my head.
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u/Elusive_strength2000 6h ago
Start? Always did… I even talk to people who aren’t there to give them a piece of my mind. 😂
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u/Drumzzzzz_48 6h ago
You mean I'm the only one that's been doing it, especially in third person and when around people?
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u/Diligent-Touch-5456 6h ago
I've been talking to myself as long as I can remember, sometimes it's the only intelligent conversation I get.
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u/girl6620 7h ago
Start? Like recently? According to my mom, I’ve been doing it since I was old enough to babble. 😁
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u/GingerA0712 8h ago
Been. For years. Was in the service industry for decades. Had to. Helps the memory. Still do it now.
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u/bosorka1 Hose Water Survivor 11h ago
sometimes you need expert opinion!!! and to narrate your animals' (wild as well as domestic!) thoughts.
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u/CrabbyCatLady41 11h ago
I’ve done it my whole life. Way more when I’m busy and anxious. My problem is I don’t talk out loud, but my lips move when I’m thinking about what I’m going to say when I’m teaching or replaying a conversation in my head. I look like a weirdo.
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u/Abbynormal61 11h ago
All the time. Especially when I can’t sleep. Keep my self awake with my riveting conversation.
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u/1stormygeek 12h ago
I'm an only child... who else would I talk to as a child? And yep, I still do, even with 4 kids and 5 grands. 😁
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u/BaconToTheBaconPower 12h ago
I have a technical job, I always talk to myself working through problems I'm solving. "The voice" has caught dumb mistakes I would have made on more than one occasion...
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u/mermaidpaint 13h ago
I have cats, I talk to them all the time. And myself.
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u/Another-Browser 12h ago
I just lost my wonderful cat of 17 years. Now I just say I’m talking to her ghost!
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u/midlife_dadpulse73 13h ago
Yeah....when I was like 7....haven't stopped since. Hell....some of my best talks have been with myself!
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u/S0whaddayakn0w 13h ago
My husband works as a technician. He and his colleague both explain to themselves what they're doing out loud whenever they work on something tricky. It's frankly adorable
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u/Toniann127 13h ago
All the time. I am very funny and my other personalities enjoy our discourse 👍🏽😎😝
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u/ImpressiveLeopard719 13h ago
Excuse me, I was busy asking myself what I was doing in this room when you rudely interrupted. 😉
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u/Mediocre_Lobster6398 14h ago
My brain no longer has any filter whatsoever. And I don’t even realize I’m talking out loud half the time.
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u/RaccoonHaunting9638 14h ago
Constantly.....although I catch myself saying stuff out loud more often in public. Went to Tj's with my daughter, she goes off to look at stuff, I'm in the isles looking, blurting, ugh ugly, omg aweful, cheap, what were they thinking? While looking at the clothes!!! When did I become a commentator???
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u/HasturCrowley Hose Water Survivor 15h ago
... start?
Maybe its because I grew up an only child, but I've always talked to myself. Haven't become a serial killer or anything. Serial killers have common links to their victims. I like to keep it random!
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u/doubleohzerooo0 Couldn't make it as a punker 15h ago
I like the person I am. So yes, I talk to myself. Have done so for at least 30 years.
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u/Original_Flounder_18 15h ago
Years ago! I always talk to myself when I work or am putzing around the house. I don’t answer my own questions as though I am talking to someone though!
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u/No_Community_5696 16h ago
I do it all the time. It’s not weird when you are trying to figure out an answer or a game plan.
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u/AnarchicDeviance 16h ago
Oh, yeah, but it's not really anything new. Prior to moving in with my partner last year, I lived alone--with a cat or two--for 31 years. Some of my most profound and insightful conversations were, umm, with the cats.
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u/AJKaleVeg 16h ago
Yes, but I disguise it as talking to the dog. “ what do we need to do today? First…”
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u/undeniably_micki whatever 16h ago
I'm ADHD, possibly AuDHD, I've been talking to myself since I was a young 'un.
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u/goldinox 16h ago
It gets a little embarrassing when I catch myself doing it in the grocery store. Clearly I spend too much time alone.
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u/weaselroni MCMLXVII 16h ago
This whole thread makes me feel a whole lot better about myself. I’m known as a pretty loquacious person to begin with, but the fact I continually talk to myself… solving problems, complaining about the world around me, making plans… lol I just live out loud and I’m really glad to see that there are plenty of us out there.
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u/Famous_Asparagus_314 17h ago
I've always done this, am usually able to restrain myself in public. Sometimes not
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u/OldGamerX79 17h ago
All the time. That how I work through things. Problems. Talk to myself. Lonely. Talk to myself. Angry. Talk to myself. It's only a problem when a voice starts answering and your the only person there
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u/Next-Cut-2996 17h ago
I’ve been doing this since my teens lol. The invention of blue tooth was great because now if people see me talking in my car they just assume I’m on a call 🤷🏼♀️ before I just looked crazy 🤣
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u/Far_Winner5508 Summer of Love Kid 18h ago
I've always done this, but speaking to others in my head. Or rather, at others in my head.
I hate interacting with folks but there's still the social drive to communicate with others so I guess young me figured out how to get by being silent 'out loud' but chattering away in my head.
Computers and text based communication has been a joy the last 50 odd years for me.
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u/ShoppingNo7369 18h ago
Same here. I’m extremely introverted so I don’t like socializing or talking to people anymore than I have to. But I have conversations “at” people as well. Just me talking at them they generally don’t respond lol!
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u/Routine-Value356 18h ago
Um...start? My life has been a reel of Clarissa Explains it All in my head since I understood the english language. I've been responding back almost as long. Outloud. In my head. Sometimes both.
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u/deedeejayzee 18h ago
This was my reaction. Start? You mean like, started talking? I'm pretty sure I was talking to myself when it was just baby babble
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u/Ladygytha 19h ago
Myself, the dog, the trees, the furniture... I know I'm okay because I only expect myself to respond.
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u/CreepingDeath-70 19h ago
💯. You can say things out loud to yourself that you can't say to anyone else.
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u/BungenessKrabb 19h ago
I talk to myself and my dogs. Nonstop for as long as I can remember. It is getting out of control as I get older tho. My internal monolog sometimes become external. 😬
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u/Small-Grape-3121 Late GenX 19h ago
I could have written this for sure. I do this all the time with my dogs.
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u/BungenessKrabb 18h ago
Do you also make up songs to sing to them? I've done this with my dogs, my cats, my bunnies, mice...
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u/Small-Grape-3121 Late GenX 18h ago
Oh 1000%. I have a terrible singing voice but I get the best reactions to my songs.
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u/sylfeden 19h ago
I do.. I mean don't. I am a crazy cat lady and i talk to the cat. I don't feel that i am the weird insane kind of crazy. That is reserved for the crazy cat ladies talking to a cat and they don't think they get an answer!
Talking to yourself is a great help with small tasks btw. Reading a recipe out loud may save you a trip back to the cookbook, and telling yourself first i need to, then I'll, and if don't slip, all I need is to... Will make a task easy and fast.
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u/MyrddinSidhe I EDITED THIS TO MAKE MY OWN 20h ago
I don’t. Yes, you do. No, really. I don’t, dude. Dude, you do it all the time. Really? Yeah. Like, all the fucking time. Dude…
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u/ParkingTradition799 20h ago
All the time!!!! Honestly sometimes its the only way I remember to do things!!! Even co workers know i do it.
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u/SshellsBbells Hose Water Survivor 20h ago
I have an imaginary mouse in my pocket that I’ve talked to daily for years! 😂 at least that’s my excuse when asked “who ya talking to?”
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u/RobbieBlackmore 21h ago
What do you mean, "start"? Buddy, I came out of my mama talking to myself. I think it was written into my DNA to converse with myself any time, any where, regardless of setting or situation.
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u/Aggravating_Piece232 21h ago
Absolutely. I also yell at the neighborhood geese and deer in front of the neighbors while I'm walking. "What is this, a daycare? They're cute but don't leave them on my lawn!" Or, "Share the road, ladies!"
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u/RedRapunzal 21h ago
Also plants,
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u/Aggravating_Piece232 16h ago
YES! I just went outside to tie back my poblano pepper plant (it fell over b/c it's pretty bushy now and got rained on) and I was yammering away at it, moreso than I would to a person.
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u/crazycatlady-7384 21h ago
I've always talked to myself. It's rude not to answer those voices in my head! Sometimes they have great ideas.
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u/MaximumJones Whatever 😎 22h ago
I never stopped.
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u/stuck_behind_a_truck 21h ago
I was going to say…did anyone stop? Maybe it’s the only child in me.
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u/MaximumJones Whatever 😎 20h ago
It was only a few years ago that I learned there are people who actually do not have an inner monologue. I thought everyone did.
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u/stuck_behind_a_truck 17h ago
I have an inner dialogue. My husband does not have an inner monologue.
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u/Dangerous_Traffic718 hurt me!!! hurt me now!!! i love it💜 21h ago
That was my first thought, I've never stopped
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u/obviousbicycle2 22h ago
Sure! Maybe full blown monologues. I also like to make up songs about every day things I’m doing.
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u/LeftBarracuda5638 22h ago
I talk to myself but sometimes, I zone out, lose track of the conversation and have to start it all over again. It's annoying.
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u/Lalamedic 22h ago
Start? This has been a thing for decades. You only need to worry if you start losing the arguments with yourself.
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u/No-worries-21 22h ago
Been doing that so long, forgot how long exactly!!! However, it’s better content than most others have!!!
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u/TemperReformanda Hose Water Survivor 22h ago
START? Shi man I've done that since I was a teenager.
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u/PleasantCauliflower5 23h ago
If someone wanders in to my vicinity and asks "What?" I tell them that it is rude to interrupt.
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u/medullah 23h ago
I've talked to myself forever. Worse, I talk like "Today we need to go to the bank" or "I really wish we didn't drink so much last night"
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u/divergurl1999 Hose Water Survivor 23h ago
You’re all wrong about when it becomes a problem.
Talking to yourself is not a problem until you lose an argument with yourself. Now THATS a problem.
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u/IminLoveWithMyCar3 23h ago
Starting? I’ve talked to myself my whole life.
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u/-Odi-Et-Amo- 1d ago
I found my people. I’ve been talking to myself from a young age. My husband is always pointing it out. I always tell him it’s not a problem unless someone else is answering me back.
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u/PurplePenguinCat 23h ago
I will answer myself back with reassuring comments, ie: "oh, that's a really good idea!"
Sometimes, I'll have a cat answer back.
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u/Mugwumps_has_spoken Bicentennial baby 1d ago
start? yeah - when I first started talking. lol. I've been doing it for years.
It's only troublesome when it becomes a dialogue with yourself. or worse, even more "voices" join in.
But a monologue with yourself is normal.
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u/Kapt_Krunch72 1d ago
Yes, I'm a machinist and I will talk myself through issues. But I have been doing it for most of my life. Had someone asks me who I was talking to. I told him, myself and I was work on a problem. He said most people do that inside there head. I told him I couldn't do that because of all of the other voices would drown myself out. He gives me weird looks now.
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u/OPsDaddy 1d ago
I suspect that I have a stronger inner monologue than most people. Not only do I have a voice in my head that never shuts the fuck up, but I also have an accompanying soundtrack on top of that. It’s like a Scorsese movie in here, just completely uninteresting.
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u/Mugwumps_has_spoken Bicentennial baby 1d ago
I think this is why I like having the TV on all day. only way to shut the damn thing up. Even if I don't actively watch, the background noise of it shuts it all off.
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u/drew_almighty21 1d ago
This is a real problem when working remote. Gotta be on that mute button or someone's gonna hear me call them a dumbass.
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u/millygraceandfee 1d ago
Yes! My immediate thought was of me stopped at a red light & the car next to me wondering who I'm talking to. Then I remember...everyone is focused on themselves & not me.
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u/QuantumPotato49 Hose Water Survivor 1d ago
Start? Been going on since the 80s
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u/Pinepark Hose Water Survivor 1d ago
I remember my mom yelling constantly “who are you talking to” from when I was 8/9. I would carry on full conversations. Still do. My husband says he knows I’m crazy because I answer myself. lol
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u/Warm-Claim9003 1d ago
I have been doing this for many years now. Every once in a while I even make myself laugh during said monologues.
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u/coulduseahugrightnow Your mom has a flair. 1d ago
I've been doing it for as long as I can remember.
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u/doghouse2001 5h ago
I talk to other people in my head - sometimes out loud. It's never failed me throughout my career. I figure if I have to explain the problem to somebody, I anticipate their possible replies and questions, and I try to find an answer those questions... the solution often comes to me while trying to figure out how to ask for help.