Are you talkative or quiet?

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I stay pretty quiet until someone want to talk to me and if its about my special interest I just keep talking-I am very shy otherwise

I am very quiet.
Quiet as some one can be.
I am 100% quiet.

Very quiet around people until they fall into the friend box. Once that happens, I suddenly open up and probably talk entirely too much. And if I get started talking about Minecraft, my friends know to either get out a book or run for the hills. :p

PixelPony, that is my son's new obsession! He LOVES Minecraft. He would never tire of hearing you talk about it, so if you ever need to ramble endlessly, he'd be your guy.

I think I have sort of a different problem. I would not necessarily consider myself quiet or talkative. I can be both. What happens to me is that sometimes I know I need to shut up and I can't. One way that this happens is that I kind of "store up" small talk material. I am horrible with small talk, so as I live my day, I try to pick up anecdotes and little happenings to share with others. Usually it works well, but sometimes they pop out completely out of context and at the completely wrong time in a conversation. It's weird and I don't know how to explain it. It's like I can have a whole conversation with someone about something and then very oddly and abruptly I'll say "You know the other day I saw blah blah blah and then blah blah blah" when none of the blahs have anything to do with what we are talking about and may not be of any interest to the other person. And then I just walk away. The other thing that I do is sometimes I have to repeat myself more than once, even when I recognize there is no reason to. I can see that the person understood what I said. But I say it again anyway. Sometimes a number of times. Not necessarily the exact same words. But the same concept. So it's not really the same as being talkative.

My sister-in-law's dad is most definitely an Aspie and the guy absolutely never shuts up and he is completely socially disinhibited. He will walk up to anyone and discuss airplanes with them, even if they stop looking at him. I think it (how talkative he is and how outgoing he is) makes his family think that there is no way he is on the spectrum. But he is a poster child.

It depends on who I'm chatting with. If it's someone I know well, I become a complete chatterbox and have trouble shutting up. If it's someone I don't know or like, I'm usually pretty quiet.

I've always been a chatterbox... to the point of talking too much at times.

I'm both. It depends on the situation.

More of a walker than a talker.

I can lecture though.

I used to be quieter until I got accused of something as a teenager and everyone believed it was me because "it's always the quiet one"
I learned to at least participate more in class then, but I often find out that I am still not as talkative as I often think I am.

I have an embarassing tendency to monologue about one of my favorite topics of conversation to anyone who even pretends to be interested. Unfortunately, I can't really discern the difference between fake and real interest. This has embarassed me rather frequently. Therefore, I generally try to limit my longer speeches so that they only occur in the prescence of close friends or family. However, I make mistakes fairly frequently.

Despite my tendency towards endless chatter, I have great difficulty participating in conversations in groups of more than three or four people. This is not for lack of trying, I simply do not have the necessary understanding of body language to pick up conversational cues. Therefore, in large groups I usually end up listening quietly, unsure of when I can join the conversation, and lacking the comprehension of social cues necessary to use the correct ones to join in.

I voted for moderating my conversation in social situations, but if a topic should arise that I'm knowledgeable about (i.e. Cars, animation) then I find myself suddenly becoming VERY talkative indeed.

I'm quiet, especially in a group.

I am almost always quiet. In high school most people just talk aimlessly and never have a subject to their conversations. when they do have a subject, it is usually about sports, violent video games, parties, girls or other topics of this nature. The former three of which I have no interest in and I really cannot relate to the latter. I enjoy politics, economics, cars (and anything that might appear in Popular Mechanics or Science). Few people my age have knowledge about the former two and if they (think they) do, it can sometimes lead to an argument. People my age think that they know a lot about cars, but really don't. I overheard a conversation the other day when someone claimed that they where well informed about cars because they watch the British television show Top Gear. I almost fell to the ground in laughter, those of you who are familiar with will know that is an excellent show (my favorite in fact) but informative, no. When I do have a detailed conversation is is almost always with someone who is older than me such as a teacher or another adult.

Normally quiet, though more talkative after alcohol.

I am BOTH, depents hughly on the situation and on my mood.

The one comment I have gotten consistently my whole life: "You're so quiet." My grade 11 art teacher told me once it was unnerving - he couldn't tell what I was thinking or if I was listening. I just don't see the point of talking unless I have a specific reason to.