I thought I was fairly logical?

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Does anyone else have the issue where you think you're explaining something in very logical, clear terms, but you can't seem to get anyone else on the same page? This happens to me all the time, especially at work with my supervisor. I don't know if it's me that really is communicating in a difficult to understand matter, or if she just needs help learning to listen?? I honestly feel that I explain things in a logical, clear, understandable way, and try to dumb things down, but somehow I still have to re-word things multiple times to get it across.

I get this a lot and can get very frustrated when people don't understand me. Especially when I can't think of another way to explain it.

I also confuse people with my train of thought. I might see something and a whole process will happen in my brain and I'll comment on the end thought and when I say it people say I'm being random. I can understand that but then when I explain my thought process behind it they seem to get very confused, even though it makes perfect sense to me.

Yep, I often make leaps in logic that seem perfectly rational to me but utterly confuse others. Maybe its just the difference in the way that the NT and aspie brain function. Another thing I do sometimes is state something that I think is logical and appropriate in a situation but others seem to take it as blunt and rude, even though it may be true.

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Your audience may have some bad data in their head that makes your pattern not fit. Maybe ask them what they think is happening first.

I do that too and it sometimes bugs me that I have to do all of it. It's like a routine for me though.

The problem is that my logic can often appear emotionless and weird. We can tend to jump straight to the point and make assumptions of others' knowledge. Like an adult "Anne's marble". Does this make sense?

When I was younger I sometimes had that problem. Its almost embarrassing to think back now on some moments because it seems obvious to me now why folks didnt get things I was trying convey.

Example:the store I worked at had a trash dumpster outside. On the dumpster was posted a sign "For the XYZ Drugstore use only". But the dumpster itself was enclosed in little gated fence. You could put trash into it, but the fence blocked you from reading the sign. So the stupid sign was useless because no one could read it.

The result was that every resident in every house in the surrounding community used our dumpster to put their own trash into. I would catch folks putting stuff in it and none even thought they were doing anything wrong. They honestly and innocently thought the dumpster was there for the whole community to use.

The young lady store manager and I got to talking about the problem of non-store trashing filling up the dumpster, and I said that I thought "we need a sign people can read". She replied 'we HAVE a sign out there". I left the conversation angry. But when I am reminded of it now it embarrasses me how naive I was to think that she could have parsed out that I meant "a sign that people can read" as opposed to "a sign that is always hidden from view that obviously no one would obey because they cant read it".

Should have said "we have sign, but no one obeys it because ....duhhhh....its hidden from view so you cant read the sign in the first place." Something like that.

There is more to the tale. I was also wrongly assuming that boss knew things I knew - like who the culprits were. She and others in the store thought it was some one party (some other store in the mall) that was using our dumpter. And from catching people in the act I actually knew the truth that it wasnt one party. It was every damn person in the surrounding neighborhood. The whole public. And not some baddies at anther mall store.

You might be making similar sorts of mistakes. Assuming folks know things that they dont know. And/or expecting them to parse things out in a hurry.

The lesson. You have to get into the other person's head and see it from their pov before you explain stuff to them.

One thing I realize is that when I say things in literal, strictly logical ways, other people tend to think I have hidden meanings or what I have said simply reflect I am in a bad mood instead of what I really mean.

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ABSOLUTELY.
Maybe there's some sense in the replies I got in this topic from the good folk of WP to shed some light on your (or maybe more pointedly, other people's) miscommunications.

Expanding on the logic - there was an obvious need for a community dumpster. Perhaps the boss should have bothered the Municipality. Maybe they would have taken down the "stop littering" signs though. Or, a sign could have gone up saying "public service for local residents only - please be customers too."