"I must have not been around during this 'while ago,' then. But, no, I do not think speaking in the third person is weird, as I do it too. Perhaps I shall do it more?"
I mean, I refer to myself not as I or me, but we
I also think aloud, and got asked by my classmates once if I was ok. In my head I felt "yeah, i'm fine. You guys don't think aloud?"