No one could tell if my son, 16, high functioning autisic can stop talking to himself. What can he do to stop?

Question

What can he do to stop talking to himself and be able to make friends

Answer 1

Try talking to yourself in the way that he does to himself.

Instead of trying to get him to come into your world, try behaving like him and get into his world.Copy him.

Answer 2

I work in an office of 4 people and we all talk to ourselves when we are trying to concentrate on doing something.  There are also others in the building who also do this.

How can we stop talking to ourselves, easy make our work easire to do! How can you get someone else to stop talking to themselves?  Just try to make them aware that they are doing it at that time.

Answer 3

Ask him can he see someone with him someone you cant see

thats how my mum found out i have an imaginary friend

Answer 4

first ask him what made him what made him to dislike people,sometimes at this age some people find comfort in talking to themselves since they trust in their own self and no one else and this might be the reason for his behaviour so,just tell him how much you love him and show how you care for him and this may set his mental condition to a better stage and then make him understand that there are always certain people whom we can trust  

Answer 5

Have you tried social stories with your son?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stor...

If implemented properly and reinforced well, they can be very successful ways of helping people on the autistic spectrum to understand social situations, and to understand that the repetitive talk about things that they find interesting are not necessarily interesting to other people.  

http://www.haringey.gov.uk/what_are_soci... (quite a big pdf file so please be aware if pdf files play havoc with your pc!  But has a nice step-by-step explanation of how to make them!)

I hope these help!  Just google social stories and loads of information will come up.  Let me know if I can help out any more.

Also, everyone saying "just tell him he's doing it", if it was as simple as that do you not think the asker would have done that by now?

There is something called "theory of mind", which is the ability to recognise beliefs, wants, opinions, pretending etc, in one's self and in others, and to understand that sometimes other people's likes, dislikes, wants, beliefs etc are different from one's own.  People with pervasive development disorders on the autistic spectrum have a theory of mind impairment, meaning that they may find it difficult or impossible to see things from anyone's perspective other than their own.  A person with an autistic spectrum disorder may have a very deep interest in, for argument's sake train timetables from the Manchester to London route in the 1970s, and know them off by heart, and because THEY are interested in them, they assume that everyone else in the world is also desperately interested in them and will talk about the timetables to the exclusion of absolutely everything else.  Social stories are a proper intervention that have been developed for use with people with autistic spectrum disorders to help combat the social problems which come from this theory of mind impairment.