Do you talk fast?

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It depends on how excited I am. If I am talking about something boring, I will use as little words as possible and I will talk in a slower speed. If I like whatever it is I am talking about, or if I am nervous, I will talk a lot, gradually increasing my speed until I talk exactly like the man who announces drugs side effects on TV ads.

I tend to speak slowly and with great purpose. It's partially because I am taking the time to put together more complex sentences than those with which most people speak and partially a learned behavior to help other people keep up with the level of vocabulary I sometimes use.

As a child I spoke quite fast, parents placed me into speech therapy because of it. Than about
two months after I was released I went back to talking at hyper speed.

According to others, I do...

I talk way too fast. I have a BFF since I was two and a half, and I was over at her house, and I was talking to her, really fast, and a lot, so her Dad started doing the hand-talk motion... the one that looks like a duck.
When I was six or seven I was in line at a church potluck and I was talking.. and the dude across from me told me I was talking really fast.
Also, I was told by someone that the way I talked 'made them want to hurt themselves.' (??)

I also tend to talk fast and I try and slow down as I speak. but sometimes I don't even know I am talking fast. My problem was worse when I was a kid.

That's the same as myself.

I either talk too fast, or talk too slow and too quietly, and I stutter, slur and jumble words and stuff and say other things when I mean to say something else. Sometimes I just talk and my story of what I'm saying makes no sense, because I'm missing out huge chunks of what I'm saying, and mixing up sections in the story, so it's all being swapped around.

For example, getting off the bus yesterday, I meant to say "thank you" to the driver as I always do, but I said "Hiya". I do this a lot, it's so embarrassing, and it's upset me a few times.

I've even said her instead of him, or she instead of he sometimes, when I know what the gender of the person is. I've done this with a trans person once, and they were pretty offended D:

I don't think it will go down well if I want to become a multi-lingual translator.

This never happened when I was little, but it happens to me frequently; I stutter a lot, I mix up the order of words. People seem to think I speak too quietly, when it's really them that aren't really listening to me properly. Sometimes, I get the feeling that I'm being rushed. I like when I used to talk fast and people would actually listen and none of those things would happen to me...but people just keep on complaining. HONESTLY, they're annoying.

I speak so fast that sometimes people cont understand me
Thatsbwhen I talk about something I like

Following my recent assessment with an ASD specialist, the report said that I spoke "quietly, fast and with very limited inflection". First I knew about the fast and lack of inflection, though I had my suspicions that I spoke a bit quietly. At least this explains why I'm forever being asked to repeat myself!

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Volume and pace of speech are two common problems for those of us with AS isn't it? Also intonation and other rhythm in speech (prosody) are common problems as well aren't they?

I was once interviewed for television news. I was so animated (in an odd and clumsy fashion) while I was talking that I accidentally caught the wire of the mic they had on me and launched it across the ground. When I watched the program I discovered that they cut my interview down to just a few seconds and the reason was obvious. I was talking so fast that what I said was only just understandable to the people who know me best (I'm sure the rest of the world didn't understand a word). I was very surprised to see how quickly I was speaking compared to the news reporter and others. I guess I was nervous, but even nerves wouldn't make most people talk that quickly.

Years ago I did a recorded video interview with other people and when watching it I was amazed at how much quieter I spoke than the others did. My wife tells me all the time that I talk slowly and I take forever to get to the point of what I am trying to say. I've noticed that I stammer and stutter quite a bit as well when I'm concentrating on a thought and trying to speak.

I am particularly quiet when speaking on the phone. The volume of my own voice amplified in the handset of a normal land line phone hurts my ears. I constantly turn down the volume on any phone that anyone else has been using because they turn it up way too loud for me. Is it possible that the volume of my own voice bothers me enough that I speak quietly as a result?

Anyhow, I know the rate of my speech varies dramatically and doesn't seem to fit with what other people do and what they expect. I also know that I speak much more softly than most people would prefer almost all the time. When I am forced to speak more loudly people usually think I am angry when I am not at all. My voice doesn't seem to have a middle volume.

I know, right? and sometimes people say I mutter or mumble. I say they yell. Usually when I'm talking its of value so listen closer is my motto.

My dad talks fast too and has had asperger tendencies but never diagnosed I also talk fast and was said to have aspergers, ADHD and bipolar and anxiety when 16, I have always talked fast because I have a million thoughts and can organize my brain and slow down. I'm either talking fast or from my mind gets scattered and I lose my train of thought. One thin my 4 year old girl with autism, my dad and I all do is we speak fast and people can't understand us, we also have all had speech delays and pronouncing some of our words and letters correctly. We also have all been loners preferring our objects over people - my dad his card games and computer, cars (can tell you anything wrong with a car) and machines is what he did for work in a good career,, as for me; my phone and computer, and headphones and as for my little girl her curious George she is obsessed with as well as anything monkeys. Sorry if that's a bit off topic.

My dad always tells my daughter like they told him back in the day billy, slow down so we can understand you, back in the day he had speech in high school but knew nothing about autism. So my dad always says Michelle slow down so I can understand you or Gracee slow down so I can understand you. Some people will look at us and say what did you say? All confused. Then some people told me I mumble I never thought I mumbled and always thought I made sense? We all have loud hoarse deep voices too and everyone tells us we all talk "too loud" oh well not here to make the world happy- we were all born this way. (: