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Neither. It is a function of failure to suppress the motor aspects of internal speech that is a hallmark of ADHD.

• emteycz 6y ago
  Hmm... I have severe ADHD, and I used to have problems with saying things that I really didn't want to say but I blurted them out in the heat of the moment without any intelligent consideration whatsoever (lies with too high reward), but that is alright now (I trained really hard to always hold for two seconds and think before talking). However I also talk to myself entirely on purpose, and that's different from my inner dialogue in that while my inner dialogue is from my own perspective, I am talking to myself out loud as a second person (calling myself by my name etc) - that's how I get complex series of tasks done, by constantly asking myself if I have planned the plan, checked the plan, if I am following the plan, if I don't have anything else to do now, repeating the task at hand, etc. Meanwhile I also have my normal inner dialogue, this conversation didn't replace it.