As a child, were you extremely talkative or very quiet?

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Nooo...
I go to an "Asperger Social Group", in a pub. We arrive. Half of us take turns to witter on about our "subject of the day", while the rest don't particularly listen. Then we go home. Great fun!

I was hyper-social and talkative until i was 5'ish then i became almost non responsive... and have been since

I was very talkative as a small child, especialy at home. I stayed talkative at home throughout my teens, though during my teens I was very quiet in school and public. Now I would say I am neither talkative or quiet at home, and am still quiet in public.

I am better than I used to be in public places, I can for the most part cary on conversations with friends and family in public depending on how a certain place makes me feel. Places with high cielings and out door places with a dispersed population effect me the least. Crowded places basicaly shut me down, as does standing in line at a store during check out in any location.

Quite quiet. Saw no need to interact unless it was required of me or I needed something. My mom says I was I was 'un-assuming and quiet'. No change these days.

Nothing stays consistent. Observe:

From years 2 - 4, I talked to no one but walls. I still had lots of friends, but I left the socializing up to them.
5 - 7... I talked a lot, but I could shut up when needed.
At 8, I only talked to my friends and people who got me angry, but not people I didn't know. And I got angry really easily. Still do.
At 9, 10, and 11 I wouldn't shut up. I was always loud and hyper and had tons of people to hang out with.
For the past two years I've been a little quieter, but still very social, especially for an Aspie. I'm definitely the most popular AS kid in the school now.

My mother claims I was friendly and talkative as a child, but I rememebr clearly always being pushed to talk and interact more, always being told I was too quiet and should be friendlier. In one of my early class pictures I'm slumped over facing away from the rest of the group. I did usually have a close friend here and there whom I was comfortable talking to, but I remember always being very ill at ease in groups (including family).

I was really quiet in that I did not talk very much, but I was really loud in that I never realized how loudly I was talking.

I was very quiet in my childhood unless I talked about something that I was obsessed with.

I was very quiet.

I was mostly extremely quiet but when I was "switched on" I talked too much.

A paradoxical mix of quiet and over-talkative.

Shy, quiet, scared.

Very quiet. Still am. Also like others have said here, I would usually only speak when spoken to.

Quiet. And shy and nervous.

I used to be really quiet to the point of language delays...and then I started chatterboxing in who, how whyless jibberish...

Quiet. Quieter then I am today.