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Its about public speaking. I was in my somphmore year and I was in front of my english class. We were supposed to do a 4-5 minute presentation but I went for like 8 minutes but didnt even know it. I zoned out while doing my presentation. Anyone been so scared that they have zoned out during a presentation.

i used to be terrible at talking in front of people... there was one time in 4th grade i did well... presenting my "expert's journal" on sharks...

for my aikido blackbelt test... we have a part which is where the class helps you with your "weakness"... in a teaching skit (we use it as a breather break cause blackbelt tests take hours lol and it was in SC and VERY hot/humid)... but my skit was: the entire class jumped down on the floor and started asking me questions in RAPID succession... cause my weakness was being able to talk (as a teacher) in front of the class... it was very scarey!

since then... ive had to teach science in elementary schools with 2nd-graders.... as well as college level classes.

i've gotten better at talking AT people in this manner (which is how i think of it).... and while i have improved immensely...

i find i do best when im teaching things im interested in... like science.

it was actually through my teaching evaluations (for my college classes i taught) that i really got clued in on to all my little quirks... and is what lead to me finding out about AS ect...

and now, knowing about AS... i actually use it to my advantage to help focus on my topic and get excited enough about it to be a better speaker. i'm luck too now, that the range of talks i now give are all on topics i feel well informed about and am interested in

i still get nervous though with teaching... cause of questions... it's hard for me to understand what people are getting at... the first few times i give a lecture, i have so much anxiety over what questions people will ask cause i never have ever seems to ask the questions (on any toipic) that most people ask... but once i get a sense for how people seem to think on the topic... i can better answer them... lol guess that's why the teaching evals from my first class sections are a bit worse than evaluations from my later classes (when you TA a college class, you teach multiple sections)

but i can blab for an hour easy now... just depends on topic... but i dont mind being in front of people as much

Onegai Shimasu: Does Aikido appeal to AS people more? Maybe because it is so technical and anti-confrontational? I have met many followers of O Sensai who were aspies. It is an interesting overlap.

I have zoned out before while public speaking...I was in the middle of a speech, stopped talking for about 1 minute because I was zoned out and then vomited. I have really bad nerves when it comes to public speaking, I hate it.

This is not a gripe, but a humble suggestion: Perhaps you might consider giving your threads meaningful subject lines? "OK a question" is not meaningful; "Question about zoning out while making presentations and public speaking" or something like that would be much better. If I can't tell what a thread is about I usually skip it. This is just some friendly feedback for a fellow creature.

I don't do public speaking; yes, I tend to go blank, even on subjects on which I am qualified as an expert.

Jeet Kune Do is the ultimate martial art for aspies. Sadly, Bruce Lee was probably the only one who understood it (and how to teach it) properly.

Good fortune,

- Icarus misses Bruce...

dunno... a lot of aikido is sissy fake crap...

but we definitley had a bunch of weirdos lol

I am fine in public speaking... I find it easier than conversation (since there is only one route of spoken "traffic", as it were, to process, that of the speaker to the audience. No crap like crosstalk or reation analysys involved there...

Scripting and prompters help me alot in this case, especially if it was I who wrote the script. I also do my best when I don't have a specified time limit (in my opinion, information should always be about content rather than time and/or length, although the working world would seem to disagree). Other than that, I could probably get a career as a public speaker (not a motivational speaker though, that would require more vocal subtleties than what I know.)

I did the exact same thing during a speech in a college public speaking class. I couldn't focus on the time while also having to focus on getting through the speech without noticably shaking and attempting to make eye-contact, as we were instructed to do. It would have been an A speech (because I'd given the speech several times before in other classes, haha) if I hadn't gone so far over the required time...I think I got a C. Yay for penalizing the Aspie.

That professers dont they ever get anything right.

Maybe that's what happened to me during my driving test. When it finished, I couldn't remember driving for more than 1 minute. I thought I hadn't driven, but I passed the test. It always remained a mystery to me.

It's conceivable that that is an autistic reaction. I do the SAME every day. I hop in my car, point it in a direction, and it is almost like someone else is driving. Sometimes it is almost like I just all of the sudden realize I am near my destination. Odd, but I don't even come close to getting a scratch on the car, and get to the destination pretty quick

If it is just me, I am extremely nervous during them, but can get them done... sometimes I ramble on and sometimes I will go on to elaborate on the point.

But for me the worst part is question/answer. All of this information is thrown at me all at once, and I have a very hard time not zoning out during it. My responses get VERY slow, and I cannot think clear enough to come up with quick responses... that is when my zoning out becomes intimidating for me, lol.

I always think up responses 3-4 days later, but by then it is too late, lol.