Heck, I wish I could shut-up. I've even searched the net looking for advice. I can't stay quiet because, if I do, everyone assumes I am angry or upset and they have to BUG me over it. I can't converse non-verbally, so I wind-up compensating for it by talking too much. The things I say are always considered, at best, weird, and at worst, downright offensive, usually through the 2nd or 3rd degree (for example, I once talked about how I hate the Health Care system in a bar with my friends and one of my friend's Dad and they got very upset with me because it was political. However, it is political in the 2nd degree -- and this was years ago before Hillary made it 1st degree political. They were liberal too, so I figured it was safe. It wasn't. In fact, the Dad was visibly annoyed, according to one of my friends, and of course I missed-it. "Politics and religion are rarely good topics," my friend told me. I wasn't aware Health Care was politics [remember, this was not a hot topic at the TIME]!)