Opinions on this? Slightly worried.

[Sing]

Sorry about the vague title; couldn't think of how to phrase it into a title size chunk.

Anyways as of late I've begun talking aloud in second person to myself. None of it is really

consciously done (as in I don't intend to say it, it just seems to happen), and even when I don't intend to do it,

its frequency seems to be increasing.

 

So recently while working on some stuff on my computer I state aloud,

"You really should get some sleep"; something of that nature. The statement is directed

towards me, and I don't really think out or expect to say these things.

 

Opinions? Also, what mental disorder would that be most akin to?

[Laurora]

Dude, I do that too. Been doing it since I can remember. All the time, even in public. I often just mumble it though. I'm pretty sure it's not a mental disorder or anything. What wrong could it possibly do, other than make people think you're bonkers?

[Guest Anonymous]

What the hell is second person? I know there is first and third person perspectives, but never second. Also:

 

3. Not really. This happens to me sometimes if I'm proxying. Think it just means you're communicating well and your brain is dribbling with tulpa juices.

[mouse]

1st person is I, 3rd person is he, 2nd person is you.

There is also a 0th person, but it's not recognisably distinct from third person in English. It's when there is no subject to the sentence, for example 'lluvia' in Spanish. We use dummy pronouns for this in English - 'it' rains. But it actually means nothing in this sentence.

And sometimes a couple other things are called a '4th' person, like obviate pronouns when there's a distinction between proximate and obviate, or genericised pronouns like 'you' in English (when you're not talking to anyone in particuliar, like this sentence for example.), 'on' in French, and 'la gente' in Spanish. But none of these are really a true fourh person, they are just sometimes called fourth person.

 

And this has been mouse with your mini linguistics lesson of the day!

[Lacquer]

This is not tulpas.

 

Move to off-topic.

 

(that is unless this is your tulpa saying that to you, which from the sound of your post, it isn't)

[Sands]

1st person is I, 3rd person is he, 2nd person is you.

There is also a 0th person, but it's not recognisably distinct from third person in English. It's when there is no subject to the sentence, for example 'lluvia' in Spanish. We use dummy pronouns for this in English - 'it' rains. But it actually means nothing in this sentence.

And sometimes a couple other things are called a '4th' person, like obviate pronouns when there's a distinction between proximate and obviate, or genericised pronouns like 'you' in English (when you're not talking to anyone in particuliar, like this sentence for example.), 'on' in French, and 'la gente' in Spanish. But none of these are really a true fourh person, they are just sometimes called fourth person.

 

And this has been mouse with your mini linguistics lesson of the day!

 

Passive voice? The ball was thrown. By whom? It is not important. There is a subject (ball), but there is no person. Different from saying I threw the ball.

 

Look at me talkin' about tuppers.

 

Also didn't know talking in second person to yourself is considered a mental illness. I'm sure there's a lot who do that instead of just saying I yadda yadda. Maybe it's because you're making a tupper to make this somewhat tupper-related. Have you been talking to them a lot and saying "you do x" often? Do you perhaps feel more like you are talking to yourself instead of someone else so you kinda got stuck in that habit even when not trying to force or narrate?

[waffles]

>What mental disorder is this most akin to?

Hypochondria.

[fennecfoxx]

I do the same thing sometimes, just in my head instead of out loud. It's no big deal.

 

It sometimes leads to conversations with myself.