Autism: Why I Stopped Talking To Myself

I think back to an incident that happened when I was at school

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I like to talk to myself.

But I don’t just like to do it. Talking to myself is much more than something enjoyable. It is something of a psychological necessity.

I engage in an autistic self-regulatory behaviour known as stimming, and my…