Diarrhea of the mouth

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As a kid (and up to this day) I hear i have this (leaves an awful taste in your mouth when someone tells you this, too )

For the first time in 13 years, though, I let my best buddy in on my relationship concerns and the way I think. It felt good, though I'm sure it would be the definition of the title. I am constantly telling personal info/info they don't need/secrets, etc to other people, so I never know when I could/should let others in.

This happen to anyone else?

I have two friends I tell all my secrets to. Of course, I word nerdy things to make it sound cooler. Either way, most people know that if you tell me something in confidence, two people are going to know. My best friend and my husband. Most people are cool with it because both my best friend and my husband are good at keeping secrets... I mean like they'd serve jail time for contempt of court to keep a secret. Also, neither judge people (nor do I), so you can tell all three of us anything and our opinion of you as a person isn't going to change much.

Anyway, as far as myself, I tell my husband most of the things about myself that I should be hiding from the rest of the world (and try to for their sake since they don't want to hear it all). My best friend gets a lot of it, but not all. Outside of those two, I tend to match up. I have a friend who is very artsy fartsy and somewhat crazy, so she gets to see that side of me that not too many people know I have. My sister is opposite of autism. She's a people loving social buttefly, so I end up talking about a lot of things I don't care to talk about with my sister, but sometimes we'll hit a good topic both of us enjoy (like relationships). My mother is a guidance counselor, so all my autism discussions usually are saved for her (like things that were really cool on this site), which is good cause my mom is the only one to love me enough (besides my husband) to let me monologue which I tend to do on the subject of autism.

Anyway, it helps to match topics with people's interest. If you talk about details about something nobody cares about, then they will be saying, "TMI." If you talk about details of something they find interesting, then they are into it.

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I don't think this totally pertains to what you were saying, but since I do the TMI...

My biggest problem has always been with topics that aren't appropriate in general, like telling people you need to use the bathroom. I had one college roommate get on me about saying, "I'm going to hit the facilities," instead of "I'll be back, I got to pee." Where I come from, "I got to pee" is actually almost common. Now, in class recently, we were taking a mid term, and it was toward the end where not many students were left in the room. An older gentleman (about 70 years old) stood up and informed us all he had a cramp in his leg. I'm sitting there doing the pee pee dance, and I had already gone to the bathroom once where the professor wasn't so sure he wanted to allow me to do (I guess he thought I was going to run and google answers on my phone or something). So I threw in, "That's okay, I've had to use the bathroom again forever now." This one woman turns around and rudely says, "TMI." I rudely said, "I"m pregnant, and at some point, you just don't give a s**t anymore." I'm assuming if she had kids, she'd truly understand that anyway since when you have a baby, you show more parts of your body to more people than strippers do. You might as well post a utube video of my anatomy. Modesty is gone during pregnancy. Anyway, things like that is where I seem to get the most "TMI" for. Sex is another topic you got to be careful about. It's a strange topic because it's more acceptable in this day and age to talk about it with certain people, but only certain things can be said about it with certain people. It's really hard to find that art with what's appropriate and what's not. Others include burping, farting, nose picking, and aliens. I know, aliens make no sense, but you will be deemed weirdo sicko faster by talking about aliens than you would sex, unless other people have brought up the conversation and you don't come up with any crazy thoughts on the subject.

If you don't believe me, go to where there's a large group of people with a friend you trust (and tell your friend beforehand what you are trying to do). Sit in an area where people can hear you talk, but not pay attention unless you say something interesting...like a bar/restaurant...not a country club though. I did this at 3:00 in the morning at a Hardees that was packed full of people coming out of the clubs. Anyway, just talk with your friend like you normally would, and pay attention to all the people around you and when they look your way. When you say something somewhat weird, they will look at you. I would be talking and randomly throw out certain words like booger just to see what words brought on more attention. All the cuss words were ignored. My black friend said the "N-bomb" a few times, and nobody cared about that either. We also got into an argument where we flipped our races...I called her a cracker redneck etc. and she called me porch monkey what have you. Nobody noticed. But if I said the word "alien" or "booger," heads turned.

In the UK, we call this "Verbal Diarrhoea".

I can totally relate! I am told by close friends that I have a tendency to "babble" at times. It seems like its the worst if I recently had caffeine, so I'm trying to reign in my coffee consumption. 2 cups in the morning, that's it. If I have it in the aftn. I become hyper and annoying.

Ironically I'm fine with moderate alcohol consumption, having a few beers makes me the "normal" one in the bunch and other people become the babblers. Then they tell me I'm a good listener!

I hear other people do that sort of thing and get laughs and then I do it and people look at me weird or laugh at me.

I believe we call this TMI or Too Much Information.....The only thing worse than verbal diarrhea is
verbal diarrhea combined with intellectual constipation.