When Ellie Shoja goes for a walk, she slips on her headphones and starts talking—but there’s no other voice ricocheting through the speakers. It’s merely a convenient way to disguise the fact that she ...

I talk to myself out loud. Yes, full conversations, questions and answers, even debates -- I can do everything all by myself. I don’t do it when people are around. I’m just not that confident in my ...

As a child, I realized that one person I enjoyed talking to was myself. This behavior was not encouraged, and I didn’t witness others doing it, so I assumed talking to myself was eccentric and ...