overload from talking

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I get overload when I have to talk to people.
When I talk about a special interest I have too many thoughts at once and it is difficult to coordinate thinking and talking and I have no good coordination with my breathing and I get extremely hyperactive and overloaded and then I go into a meltdown or in a shutdown and need quite a long time to recover.
When I do not talk about a special interest I feel lost.
In conversation when someone else is talking I get overloaded too because of all the information coming in verbally and their gestures and everything and I go into meltdown or shutdown too and need time to recover.
It happens also in conversation with one person and actually I cannot hear anymore what the person is saying.
I am most of my time alone, but when I am in a people-conversation I get overloaded very quickly (cat-conversation is much easier).
When there are many people around talking I cannot join conversation and I stim a lot (hand movements and rocking).
When I am with my psychologist I need to talk and I stim a lot a lot but half of the time I am mute as well.
I talk mostly to her about special interests and then I stim a lot and she says that I talk very "staccato".
Does anyone relate to this?

Most definitely. I have had to quit seeing a chiropractor who talked so loudly and animatedly that I would begin to shut down or border on meltdown when I was there. I actually started a thread about this. But you are definitely not the only one who gets overloaded. I also get overwhelmed when I keep talking too much.

Sorry, I did not saw your thread!
After diagnosis I was referred to a center for autism but the psychologist I was referred to was also talking too loud and with too many gestures that I could not go back anymore, but I found another one and she has a very calm voice and is not using many gestures talking to me.

Thank you!
My first input opening this thread was of having to do the action of talking myself leading to overload.

edit: writing mistake

Speech is an eggstreme overloader, incoming and outgoing. Me speaking makes me tired. Listening to other people speak makes me tired.

I really get overloaded talking when there are a lot of other people talking in the background.

I definitely get overloaded and/or exhausted from speech. I can usually talk to my mom no problem, and my dad sometimes (but he is really quiet, so it is hard to keep a conversation going with him sometimes, so I don't do most of the talking). Overall with my people, I get tired from it REALLY fast. Processing what people say on time is often a problem for me, as is compiling me thoughts fast enough to get them out. Sometimes I would rather avoid conversation all together.

do any of you get a sugar crash when you get tired?
for me if i talk too much i get the same thing as if i had a candy bar for lunch and its been a few hours. so i make sure i have a decent meal before talking to my therapist after work since i know its an hour long conversation and then i have to drive home before i get to eat again

it could just be a diet thing, i am a little bit hypoglycemic