Oh no! I’m a narrator!

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Talk to your kids, they said
Get them talking, they said.

Ten years later I find myself saying to myself “Let’s defrost the food, put a wash on and sweep before I go out.”

Like a proper mad person 🥵. I’ve turned into a narrator. Leave no thought unspoken for if I think without speaking, has it even been thought?

Send help and a muzzle please.

I think it's great! It helps clarify your thoughts, and stops you forgetting what you're doing!

I think the fact that it wards off random strangers is a bonus; the people that love you won't mind; they'll just think you're a bit dotty 🙂

I used to do the same - my solution was to get a dog! I now walk along having full-blown, if one-sided, conversations with an animal that thinks I’m brilliant*.

*This may or may not be an improvement on the situation.

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LadyRough I am glad the dog is interested. I have a family member who used to narrate- can’t believe I am doing the same!

Don’t we all do this? It goes hand in hand with speaking to adults like they are children too. I once handed a plate to my DH and said ‘ooh careful hot-hot!’ All the kids were asleep!

I do miss my dog and how she would gaze lovingly as I shared my to do list with her. None of my kids ever look at me with that level of adoration 😂 now I’m just a crazy lady talking to myself sometimes. Even on my day off work I still talk away to the empty house.

This made me laugh.

I'm also guilty of talking to the dog, a lot. He ignores me most of the time.

Another mad narrator here. I used to talk to the children when they were little, now it's the dogs, or myself if there's nobody else around to natter to. I don't care, it helps me get my thoughts in order. Half the time I don't even realise I'm doing it.

Yep, I recently pointed out a big red bus to a bemused colleague.

I do this with my cat. She practically rolls her eyes at me.

When mine were little I once left them with DH for a minute while I popped into a shop alone. I dropped something on the floor, loudly announced "Oh dear, silly Mummy - pick it up!" and had to make a swift, mortified exit because everyone was staring at me.

Its one way of guaranteeing conversation with your intellectual equal

(Rather than a rehash of facts from horrible histories for example)

Hehe - like @LadyRoughDiamond I narrate to the dog too! Although I have learned that there are few things more crushing in life than catching your canine sidekick rolling their eyes at something you've said... 🤔😉

We're the truly sane ones. Non-narrators are the people who can never find their keys and forget their PIN numbers.

(and, as Blackadder said when told he was talking to himself "...it's the only way I can be sure of intelligent conversation.")

No need for the muzzle just yet. Unless you are having a biting day and the care workers have insisted on it.

"how are you this morning, read for a drink?"
"Are you enjoying the sunshine, or is it a bit too hot?"
"ooh you're doing well, I'll just tidy you up a bit"
"Oh no you don't..I'll get you out of there"
"Time for you to go"
"How did you get so big you cheeky blighter, let's get rid of you"

Just me all alone in the garden.

Is it better or worse, if someone -for instance, talks to objects? As it bye bye house, back in an hour, maybe 2 if I go to the shop on the way home. Hello 'car name' nice to see you, right well, we're off to nana's'. 'Thank you (washing machine). Great job'

asking for a friend....

Just as bad, I found myself standing in front of a supermarket shelf swaying as I did when I had a child on my hip, my daughter was at school!

@WinterMusings It's absolutely fine to talk to objects. It's when they start to talk back that the problems begin. 😉

I laughed out loud at your loving dog! Clearly, the answer is to get a dog.

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I did this a while ago while carrying a big bag of sand at work. Someone stopped me to ask something and I found myself sort of patting the bag of sand as if I was soothing it!

As for talking to objects… I think it’s less good than talking to a dog (as there’s a reasonable argument the dog might at least benefit from your voice even though they won’t respond) but maybe better than talking to yourself? But I’m no expert!

I laughed out loud at your loving dog! Clearly, the answer is to get a dog.

I tell you, it’s not a bad idea at all. You can go on random long walks without annoying family members because you need to take the dog and she’ll only pee in the forest not the garden. You can refuse visits to those annoying family members because you just can’t leave the dog, she’ll be too sad. You can chat to the dog all day and never hear a huff or a puff or any backchat.

Oh I definitely thank and encourage the washing machine “just in case”. They cost a fortune and I cannot afford a new one so I give it compliments instead 😁.

Nothing to worry about here

100% do this and realised whilst in the woods walking this morning I was narrating to my dog 🙄 'no, we'll just go this way today' 😬

I was transporting a prisoner to custody once, sat in the back with them with colleague driving and shouting out to both of them "ooh look, cows!" 😑

A dog is definitely the answer. I witter on to ours all day, and he's a cocker spaniel so he quite often talks back! He doesn't like me talking to Alexa though.

I still excitedly point out tractors and combine harvesters, even though my DS is now 15, and still call them 'actas' and 'combadors'. I pointed out an acta when we had his mate in the back of the car last summer, much to his mortification! 😆

But do you refer to yourself in 3rd person. Eg ‘mummy is going to make a cup of tea now’
Why do people say ‘mummy’ and not ‘I’ when talking to their kids??

Hmm let’s is more second person and plural, worryingly.