The Malala story is a really terrible example of this for three reasons: 1. Her native language is not English, so she presumably does not speak to herself in

The Malala story is a really terrible example of this for three reasons: 1. Her native language is not English, so she presumably does not speak to herself in English. She is translating what she says to herself to English. She may or may not speak to herself in the third person. 2. She is relating a story about speaking to herself to other people. Just because she described it in the third person does not mean that the thought occurred in the third person. People tell stories for dramatic effect. 3. Culturally, she is very different from broke undergrads at the University of California Berkeley. Perhaps culture plays a much larger role than pronouns.