Why Do I Write Whole Paragraphs And Go Off On Many Tangents?

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I thoroughly enjoy all your posts, it's like going on a mystical journey (often by train), destination unknown, always descriptive and sensitive. I also say don't stop. MountainGoatitis, Juliette you are a riot.
Let's prevent a MountainGoatectomy, and ensure the continuation of MG's wonderful posts.

Same with me. I know I am v. annoying.

In real life and here both.

Only, here, I don't feel bad 'talking' since nobody has to pay attention, I wouldn't know if they didn't --
nor do I expect them to pay attention, and if they feel like it they can carry on a convo, or leave it.
In real life ppl are stuck waiting for me to stop talking, so I often say very little or nothing - so I don't start (the opening of the dam)...


I read that ASD brains don't do synaptic pruning, while NT (and DEFINITELY psychopath) brains do. NT brains go from point A to B with less detail.

I really admire Booyakasha's posts, as she has a way of editing (in her head maybe) what she writes here, and it comes out structured & well-thought out, concise but not too concise. She has a gift.
Since I don't have that ability, I notice it straight away.

Maybe they were gobbled up by the gobnldy gook monster.

You go off on many tangents because you hyper associate. It is an extremely Autistic thing to do. Just like we can hyperfocus, we can also hyper associate. We connect topics to each other that are not obviously connected together on the surface. So it seems like we are constantly going off on tangents which we kind of are. But all the tangents are somehow connected even if the connections are not obvious.

They seem obvious to me but other peoples brains may not have kept up with my brain!
But I often talk round things before coming to the point, and as this takes time, I may never reach the point or I may go off on so many tangents that I forget the point I was trying to make in the first place!

i have always thought and said that textwalling was one of the most unmistakable traits of autism.

i see it here all the time. NOWHERE else.

writing "walls of text", huge posts.

some people are courteous enough to break it up and punctuate properly to make it easier to digest...not all of them though.