aegipan-omnicorn:

1. I give myself pep talks in the first person, a la “The little engine that could.”

2. I chide or berate myself in the first person: “I’m an idiot.”

3. I give pep talks in the second person: “You can do this, [my name]!”

4. I chide myself in the second person.

5. I narrate what I’m doing in the third person, as if I were the protagonist in a story: “They rolled  out of bed, early in the grey morning, thinking only: Coffee!”

6. Discuss what I’m doing with someone who isn’t there (either someone from history, my own past, an imaginary friend, etc.)

7. All of the above.

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#I won’t swear I’ve *never* done 5 but if I do it at all it’s rare #other than that all of the above #though when there’s chiding to be done it’s mostly first-person #and when there’s pep-talking to be done it’s mostly second-person #(which makes a lot of advice on the subject weird because they assume it’s the other way around) #second-person thoughts don’t address me by name that much though #(in early February my brain adopted a habit of calling me ”love”) #(I remember the time period because I thought at first it was some kind of celebration of Valentine’s Day) #(but it hasn’t stopped) #(it’s kind of nice though so I haven’t tried to get rid of it) #((…wait hang on are we talking about thoughts in general or specifically talking aloud?)) #((I don’t talk to myself out loud much)) #((I think when there are pronouns for those they’re usually first-person (sometimes singular sometimes plural))) #((but more often (”often” being a relative term) it’s pronoun-less stuff like ”wait no not that have to do this first”)) #reply via reblog #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #in which Brin somehow manages to be among the most singlet people she knows #tag rambles