04 Mar 2013, 1:19 pm
Sometimes I enjoy talking to people, I get so into the conversation it's hard to stop. We are talking about very interesting stuff and then bam, I hate it when I have to leave or when the person has to leave. is this an aspie trait? 
Also talking none stop for 12 hours or five hours when on the road, is this also an aspie trait?
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04 Mar 2013, 1:22 pm
04 Mar 2013, 1:22 pm
League_Girl wrote:
Joe90 wrote:
OK, very funny.
I can't make out if that was sarcasm or a compliment.
Sarcasm but not in a rude way.
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04 Mar 2013, 1:31 pm
League_Girl wrote:
Sometimes I enjoy talking to people, I get so into the conversation it's hard to stop. We are talking about very interesting stuff and then bam, I hate it when I have to leave or when the person has to leave. is this an aspie trait?
Also talking none stop for 12 hours or five hours when on the road, is this also an aspie trait?
Also talking none stop for 12 hours or five hours when on the road, is this also an aspie trait?
Just a quick check on the internet throws up a lot of advice for NTs on how to deal with aspies who
have problems with conversation - not too little, but too much...
My own experience is similar to yours - I can talk for hours... to the point that my throat starts to hurt..
I've noticed this happens when I'm with one other person, and usually the other person... is on the spectrum
too, or is the kind of person that has encyclopaedic knowledge, or technical knowledge about a specific subject
that fascinates either of us...
So - probably for NTs it just looks like downloading info at each other - to me its the best kind of communcation
I learn something, its an exchange, and I think there is nothing wrong with it ! !!
04 Mar 2013, 1:33 pm
04 Mar 2013, 1:35 pm
shubunkin wrote:
League_Girl wrote:
Sometimes I enjoy talking to people, I get so into the conversation it's hard to stop. We are talking about very interesting stuff and then bam, I hate it when I have to leave or when the person has to leave. is this an aspie trait?
Also talking none stop for 12 hours or five hours when on the road, is this also an aspie trait?
Also talking none stop for 12 hours or five hours when on the road, is this also an aspie trait?
Just a quick check on the internet throws up a lot of advice for NTs on how to deal with aspies who
have problems with conversation - not too little, but too much...
My own experience is similar to yours - I can talk for hours... to the point that my throat starts to hurt..
I've noticed this happens when I'm with one other person, and usually the other person... is on the spectrum
too, or is the kind of person that has encyclopaedic knowledge, or technical knowledge about a specific subject
that fascinates either of us...
So - probably for NTs it just looks like downloading info at each other - to me its the best kind of communcation
I learn something, its an exchange, and I think there is nothing wrong with it ! !!
I have had my throat hurt from talking so much. I can't even be in bed with my husband or I will keep on talking and it's hard for me to not talk. My ex boyfriend was the same way and he was also aspie.
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04 Mar 2013, 2:03 pm
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whirlingmind wrote:
It wasn't a compliment. I understand what Joe90 means. And that was my first reaction, i.e. is this a joke! Socialising problems is one of the main criteria for diagnosis.
That being said, I also understand what you mean but put badly. I believe you mean talking at people, having a listening post for your monologues? Yes that is an Aspie trait. To waffle on irrespective of your audience being bored, uninterested etc.
Being Aspie doesn't mean you have no interest in being around other people. Often Aspies do want friends but have problems initiating and maintaining friendships due to failure to understand reciprocity in friendships. Aspies may isolate themselves from others due to the problems they have socially and the anxiety it has caused them, some Aspies just don't feel the need for friendships very much or isolate themselves due to not knowing how to go about making friends. Although I have read on this forum that it's possible to be Aspie and to be extrovert, that still doesn't mean they don't have problems with socialising.
That being said, I also understand what you mean but put badly. I believe you mean talking at people, having a listening post for your monologues? Yes that is an Aspie trait. To waffle on irrespective of your audience being bored, uninterested etc.
Being Aspie doesn't mean you have no interest in being around other people. Often Aspies do want friends but have problems initiating and maintaining friendships due to failure to understand reciprocity in friendships. Aspies may isolate themselves from others due to the problems they have socially and the anxiety it has caused them, some Aspies just don't feel the need for friendships very much or isolate themselves due to not knowing how to go about making friends. Although I have read on this forum that it's possible to be Aspie and to be extrovert, that still doesn't mean they don't have problems with socialising.
I posted this as satire or whatever you call it. It's a spin off from the other thread called is cheating an aspie trait. I wasn't making fun of Joe90 when I posted this. I did it to be hilarious.
That means it would be lost on quite a few people, me included, because not everyone reads every thread and I cannot see the link to the other thread at all.
Failing to get humour is an Aspie thing of course. But if the humour is very obscure it's a sure fire way to ensure most Aspies miss it.
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