Do you sometimes just HAVE to tell somebody something?

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Me and dad have been trying to figure out how to get video chat working on our new cell phones. I found it out and was eager to tell him so I ran in there and told him and he said WAIT A MINUTE! YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE IN THIS HOUSE YOU RUDE b***h! I then kind of meltdown and was going to give up on helping him then they yell more NO YOU GET IN HERE WHAT DID YOU WANT?! I did get video chat working but now I'm an emotional wreck! I was wondering if others had scenarios where they just had to tell someone something.

YES!! ! and so does my 6 yr old... But that might be normal for a 6 yr old

I feel the need to tell people positive things.

Yes I feel this way a lot or else I feel I am being dishonest and deceitful.

I was once asked by a captain in my military unit about how I got strength in my arms after I won a competition. I thought about for a few days or so and thought that I had found the answer. I went to his office and told him. He said, "You really had to come tell me that?" I felt confused and hurt. I thought that he want to know since he asked. I also find that I cannot keep things to myself if it is something that I would want to know.

yes. my husband does it to me all the time as soon as I come in the door from work. often overloading me with information before I have even put my bag down. However, given the task you and your dad were working on, I can understand your excitement at wanting to let him know straight away that you had worked it out. I can be like that myself.

Absolutely! And I feel like my life can't move forward until I say it!

If it's a solution I've found to something (as with your video chat), then it becomes the most important thing to do - and immediately causes problems because it's so important for me to tell them that I just barge into whatever else is going on and blurt it out. It must be quite a picture because I'll be practically hopping up & down with desperation to try it out.
Meanwhile, they've moved onto other things so I've interrupted what they're doing (which of course annoys them), and everything goes downhill pretty quickly after that because it's still vitally important to me that whatever it is I've discovered is tried, but I keep pushing and pushing until it either is, or I get told to sod off (which usually results in a self-analytical meltdown in some dark and quiet corner).

I do, and luckily I have a good friend who knows all about my Asperger's and is genuinely interested in how my brain works. So any time I can send her a message about something random, end it with "Just had to tell someone" and she understands. She thinks it's endearing that I can get that excited about seemingly random things.

I like talking to people on the phone. intoxocated! wahhhh!
in all seriousness, I do like telling anyone anything that will listen.

I often do.

Sometimes, I have to say something because of AS (if it's related to my special interests), and other times, I have to tell my mom something because of OCD (as a confessing compulsion). I am painfully honest, and my disorders have made me this way. To this day, I have never lied to my mom.