Do you talk like you post?

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I freeze, stutter, wander off topic, and forget what I'm saying.

I basically come off as a brain-dead middle age housewife that every now and then actually manages to say something intelligent enough to leave those around me at the time wondering "where the heck did that come from?".

Similar but I am more hyper and tend not to speak much of negative emotions and when I do, it is said in a factual sort of way.

I talk exactly like I post.

My speaking and posting habits are pretty similar. I pretty much always speak very informally and I include that in my posts. I'll say things like "kinda" and "sorta" and I'll type contractions that I would use while speaking, though I'm not sure they're considered official contractions, like "I'da" and "shouldn't've."

I think the only real difference is that I'll wander onto other topics while speaking, but not generally while posting.

Well, the parenthetical thought IS an AS symptom. Just today I spoke to a woman, and SHE seemed to think she knew what I was talking about, but was suprised to see it circle around and illustrate my point about what I was talking about earlier!

I am trying to ramp my speech up to where it is closer to what it once was. I did have to dumb it down. Even now, I may forgo a lot of detail simply because even some things OBVIOUS, to me, are foreign to others.

The idea of atomic processes in a dynamic multitasking environment, for example, sends some peoples heads SPINNING! They will ask what the term ATOMIC means and when you explain that it is a self contained process that runs without being affected by things like task switching, and you are using it to prevent race conditions, you will be met with blank stares and more questions. Even DBAs that claim to have programmed before don't seem to understand it even if you say "Well, it is the same as a lock on a database!". I usually just end up giving up on the explanations.

I definitely used to be better. I am trying a bit harder to improve things, even as I am trying to enforce what I know, and learn new things.

Does my accent show up, in my posts?

No, I don't speak very much in real life and when I do it's often a mess. I'll either be speaking too quietly, not clearly, or mix words around. When I'm comfortable with people I'm a bit better, but it still can be hard to get my thoughts into words. I tend to speak the best when I'm talking about myself or some interest.

I post how I talk. I am overly verbose and formal a lot of the time.

Of course, I'm also Australian, so I swear a lot more in person than I do on these ****ing forums.

Sorry.

I really identify with these two posters. I didn't read the other 2 pages yet, but I figured what these two said sums up how I am.

Nope.

(The whole I don't speak to people thingy, unless I know you or you're a professional; I don't really talk much then either.)

As I say, I'm a walker rather than a talker.

I talk in much the same way as I post. My use of language is the same. I can find words here more easily than when I talk, though, and in real life I tend to speak more about my interests, while talking less in general.

I don't talk like I post most of the time, because a) I'm German, so no talking in English for me and b) my thoughts are always so unorganized that it's a miracle anyone ever gets what I'm saying Although I randomly change topic in some posts, too.

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I wish I could speak mostly in sign language and typing back and forth. I know that sounds weird but I hate talking most of the time. Unless I'm really excited about something, then you can't shut me up.

It depends. It it is simple scentences like these, then it is similar to the way that I talk, but in real life, I use more contractions, and I don't use too many larger words hardly at all when I speak, only when I write. Overall, I'm much more articulate when I write than when I speak. It seems I could write a very eloquent speech, but speaking it out is a whole different story.

I seem to be the reverse of most of the people hear,
I can talk till I go blue i use lots of big words,
some times I even have something resembling a point.
But text lots harder, cant spell, no affinity for grammar,
and things that would just flow out when I am talking
just suddenly get stuck, leaving me with a point I want to make
but no ability to commutate it.