Is it normal to keep whispering punctuation marks to myself?

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it's been bothering me for while now. whenever i talk to someone (anyone), i make pauses in the middle of my sentences where a comma or any other punctuation mark has to be to silently whisper "comma" to myself.
for example:
a sentence i should say: i have a father, a mother, two brothers and a cat.
what i hear in my mind: i have a father coma a mother coma two brothers and a cat period.
the pauses i make sometimes distract people from my stories.
i hope you understand what i wrote i'm not english and my language uses a lot of commas.

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  • GuessWho
    11 years ago

    ...and a cat period.
    That sounds sooo wrong!

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  • jgustainis
    11 years ago

    yea this "tic" comes in handy some times whin i'm writing an essay or a project for school. i barely make gramar mistakes. but tics like this are really making life hard.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    sounds like a tic. I know a guy with tourettes who always mumbles whispers when hes not talking. He stutters too. I dont understand most of what he says.

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  • Yaunie13
    11 years ago

    Actually, I'm sort of used to something just like that. My cousin, way back when we were small children, would always repeat the last words that he said in the sentence, but he would whisper it. So he'd saying something like: "I'll always be the champion of the game (champion of the game)" But he doesn't do that anymore. I guess he just grew out of it. And I'm starting to do what you said you do, only because I write so many stories and essays that I have to remind myself where the punctuation marks are do I won't mess it up. But when talking, I try to remember to keep my sentences short and avoid saying those punctuation marks aloud. Sorry for the long story. I'm just so used to writing a lot!

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Ocd/down-syndrome....................or your nostrils are not functioning as needed.

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  • Chillpill
    11 years ago

    I haven't heard of this particular habit before but there are numerous stories on IIN alone about speech-related quirks, such as typing out words with ones toes and repeating words backwards in ones mind. I think these would all fall under harmless OCD-type behaviour.
    This one is interesting to me because it reminds me of the art term horror vacui (abhorrence of empty space) meaning the filling of a whole surface with detail. Lol, maybe the way you fill pauses in audible speech with your whisper is the verbal equivalent of that.

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  • Captain_Kegstand
    11 years ago

    strange...

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