Who else talks as little as possible?

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I wish I could talk more, but I don't because I didn't want to say something embarrassing, like I did when I was a kid. I had resolved that I wasn't going to say anything unless I had planned it out well in advance, but when the time came to say what I wanted to say, it wouldn't come out right. So I keep my thoughts to myself most of the time. The problem is that now I'm afraid that I've lost the ability to form coherent, well thought-out sentences except for short ones.

I only talk when I need to, like answering questions. I find it hard to ask questions verbally, or say things spontaneously.

I don't talk unless I am sure I know what I say is correct. I don't like just talking about nothing.

it depends i talk as little as possible to people i barely know but i talk almost as much as possible to my friends

Less you talk, less likely you are to f up and get a crapload of pain as a result. Same goes for typing sometimes as well. If you are easily hurt by words...talking can be a major mistake, lol. If you are not hurt by words...let me know the secret so I can learn it...

I do remember taking a vow of silence (maybe it was all a dream) back in my teen days. Probably suceeded for whatever length I put on myself - Just hid in my room all week, or whatever.

I'm quiet,and I only talk when I want to or when I absolutely have to.


-SpaceCase

Someone at work was talking to a young woman, who had an office near me, with me present. He said something like "Carl is real quiet, I don't think I've heard him say more than 2 words to me in the time I've known him". He shut up quick when I came back with "How would you like 2 more words?" . I didn't get the woman to laugh. Many people seem a little scared of me, including this woman. Maybe he thought his words were helping that situation, but I don't see how they could. Of course his "2 words" was a ludicrous exaggeration, I didn't have much interest in talking to him and I didn't remember any instance of him trying to make small talk with me.

While I don't see not talking as a goal in itself, and I don't find talking itself exhausting unless my throat is sore or I in a stressful situation/ am stressed, I am very quiet in most circumstances.
In most RL situations I keep my thoughts to myself and have very little need or drive to communicate. In most discussions I am more than content to just think about what I think, or be in other thoughts altogether.
I see no point in talking unless I have something to say. It doesn't need to be deep or very important, but it needs to be more reason that just fill the (delightful) silence.

I don't talk much cuz I don't know what to say. By the time I think of what to say, the conversation moved on to a different topic. Sometimes I don't think of what to say about something till days later & then I'm no longer talking to the person or what I want to say is completely irreverent to what the person is talking about now. I'm ret*d. It's like my brain is using a moped bike on a freeway where everyone else's mind is using revved up sports cars. I get to the destination but by the time I get there everyone else is long gone.

When this thread started I was 7 years old and still completely nonverbal.