Aspies write a heck of a lot.

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Indeed... unnecessary verbiage can cause a great deal of frustration and confusion, whereas a modicum of sense and a minimum of words can facilitate attempts at communication to a degree that is most pleasing to the one speaking, and the one hearing, the sentence.

Eschew obfuscation mgran!

Oh i know, but the option isn't say it well with lots of words or well with a few, it's say it badly with a few or try to do it better with a lot.

If i could find the words to say what i wanted, life would be so much easier. The additons are due to initial failure

I have quite an ambivalent handling of writing. I really would like to write a lot, explain everything the way it's in my mind, go into details, relate and connect the details and so on. It is quite impossible in verbal communication to treat things as accurate as in writing. But when I start to write, I often fall into despair about how many meanings even a single word can have if you start pondering on it. Then I begin to wonder how it's possible at all to write things and express your intention so that anyone gets what you wanted to say. This whole process of writig then seems so complicated to me and in the result I feel unable to cope with writing. So I don't write much.

I've got the compulsion to "inform" people, in spades.

I do a lot of writing because I'm much stronger at writing than I am with the spoken word.....with speaking, I'm like a "studio band" who prefer the studio to performing live because they can't get the control over the result that they can get in a studio. (e.g. the Beatles from 1966-1970).

If you mean do we write a lot in the sense of making long posts, I try not to........if my post starts getting long, I look for superfluous bits to delete, and mostly I seem to be able to whittle my offerings down to something that's reasonably easy to swallow. The delete key is a good friend of mine. Occasionally I find I can't do that without losing something that I think is important, so I let it through and just hope I don't start doing it a lot.

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I have a theory that it has to do with two different things. One of them has to do with how many folks on the Autism/Asperger spetrum think visually. In order to translate that into conversation we need to describe (sometimes endlessly) about something. I have a friend with AS that is very verbose when it comes to this. Once when he gave directions it wasn't simple directions, but he also described landmarks and even traffic lights along the way.

Another theory has to do with our inability to understand emotions and body language. Half of most conversation involve things such as body language, voice intonation, imagining the scenario, etc. Many of us unfortunately do not pick up on these things, so we put the non-verbal aspects of communications into words.

I either write a lot and am unable to condense it or I write a little and am unable to expand it. When I write a lot it seems to have to do with Ent-like tendencies and hypergraphia (a compulsion to write/create art/etc. that sometimes goes with temporal lobe epilepsy). Unfortunately right now I am in short writing mode and therefore can't explain myself well. Figures.

If its about replies then its to clarify or to add to a discussion.

If its to start a conversation or an article, its because starting such topics are hard in person as there are so many things to think about before people tend to take you seriously.
-- (I say 'people' but that just me stereotyping. I'm thinking of how most students in my college canteen tend to react)

I mean body language, tone of voice.. and if the person your talking to is even interested.
If a user online reads your article.. then obviously he has to of put some effort to read it. (Maybe not the best thing, but atleast your heard in some sense.)

I've wonder how many of these long posts are actually read by anyone else? I think many of us like giving our opinions without necessarily caring what anyone else has to say about a subject. You might be an Aspie if ...

Donna

I think that for my own self I end up being too verbose when writing because I can't figure out priorities of what's necessary versus not so necessary; plus, I think a lot of it stems from realizing over a lifetime how little others understand me. I'm actually getting kind of sick of my own excessive writing.

I don't even want to begin commenting on deleting other than to say it can become a horrible habit to break!

It's a HUGE problem when you can think through all the possible meanings people will take from what you say and then they need things clarified for them. I don't think most people realize how many different ways what you say can be taken. My guess is that Aspies are very good at that and that could be a big reason we tend to bloat our posts more than NTs do.

I have read your blog- it isn't that bad as far as length. I like reading it, btw. I used to write some fantasy short stories and I posted them online. I gave my sister the link and she claimed it wasn't her style (she likes romance stuff), so she didn't read them. I was a little miffed because she is my sister- at least support me, right? They were not that long, either! But that is another story, and I digress. I can be verbose. See? That is all I had to say but look how long it took me.

No you were perfectly succinct.

I have long writing mode days too. No matter what I can't trim it down. Those days I just shut up.

I wonder if we are the only ones for whom monologue is a verb and a noun both. I do this...l have a hard time editing, everything seems very important

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I can have a very hard time getting my thoughts onto paper. It is like there is a wall there. However, once I get going I can ramble on quite a bit.