Do you speak more slowly than others?

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I recently have had opportunity to hear a number of recordings of myself talking. Other people were also talking in the recordings. The recordings were of a conversation of sorts, so it was not a situation where I had something prepared to recite. I had to think about how I was going to respond/what I was going to say.

I noticed that I spoke significantly slower than the other people in the recordings. I was wondering if anyone else here also speaks slowly?

Me too. I'm also thinking slower on simple things if asked (like what's time is now). However, with complex thoughts like analyzing something maybe I'm even faster than average.

Definitely slower and quieter. It's almost like I have to shout in order for people to be able to hear me-- or I have to repeat myself 500 times-- it's gotten to the point where I will say the person's name in order to get their attention and then I will say what I want to-- otherwise they'll just keep saying "huh" "huh" "huh" over and over again. I think it's a common thing for us on the spectrum.

I talk very fast and a lot. I have traits of a manic episode when talking, which is because I might also have a mood d/o.

I have to talk slower if I try to keep up with someone I develop a stuttering problem. The words simply outpace my ability to form communication. In this regard I am curious to hear why other people talk slower?

I don't think I speak more slowly than anyone else (if anything, I tend to speak a lot faster when I'm nervous), but I'm definitely quieter by default.

I'm not sure but I believe I talk more slowly than others because I try to carefully choose words and enunciate them. Some people can't wait till I finish and they start talking because of that.

Depends on to whom I am talking to, what about, and how I am feeling at that moment. Sometimes I speak slowly sometimes I speak fast, its hard to hear yourself talk as you don't sound the way you do in your head so I dunno. I think I definitely tend to speak a lot faster when I am excited positively or negatively.

Depends who I speak to, if I go to visit family in England they think I speak really fast and unclear. In Scotland I speak a wee bit fast but not by a lot.

I think, I naturally do,- but I taught myself to "race" ahead, so my psychologist initially thought, that I had ADHD, which I don´t.

Sometimes. A lot of it depends on how anxious/nervous I'm feeling. If I'm feeling particularly anxious, I'll have a much harder time stringing words together and thinking of what to say. If I'm feeling relaxed or confident, then I can speak relatively "normally". If I'm pissed off, sometimes I can talk really fast, because my mind sort of goes into "overdrive", and some of my mental barriers pull themselves down temporarily.

I have always had problems talking since I was a kid. I used to start talking before my thought was completely formed, and then I would fumble around for what I was trying to say. Now, I think I talk slower to get my thoughts completed before getting them out of my mouth.

Most people are not so rude to me as when I was younger, trying to "give" me the word they think I'm looking for.

If I get angry, I can talk really fast. But, most of the time, I speak more slowly.

The pitch and cadence of my speech is pretty normal, just a tad slow. However, occasionally when I get nervous, my voice can turn "robotic." When this happens, I think I must sound like I've been temporarily taken over by an alien being.

I had many years of elocution lessons in childhood, I think it helped me with stuttering and incoherent speech; locally I speak slower, but in a different accent than others, and it takes me a longer than most people to make my point in informal conversations.

No, I speak faster than other people, and also much more, if I'm talking about something that interests me. The words can't come out fast enough.
If I am not interested in the topic, however, I don't speak more slowly, just much less. I've learned the need to contribute to conversations that I am a part of but don't care about to appear more normal, but I rarely say much more than "oh, really?" or "uh huh" to appear that I am listening.

I'm currently having more trouble than usual in finding the right words and syntax to express what I want to say to a high standard of clarity, so my speech these days has a lot of pauses in it. One reason might be that I tend to push my brain hard when I think, so I tend to get a lot of complicated ideas that don't immediately lend themselves to easy expression. I don't mind too much because as long as the listener is interested, they're more likely to be able to follow it if it's delivered slowly. I knew a high-ranking scientist who always had that pausing style, and he was very easy to understand, and the intelligence of his insights impressed me. Other people's talking would just go in one of my ears and out of the other, a lot of the time.

Before this current dopey phase, I've often spoken fairly quickly, but not as fast as a lot of people do.