Do you sometimes not talk?

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Sometimes I go about my day rarely saying anything. I don't think to say "hi" or "how are you or how was your day" stuff like that. It just never crosses my mind. Dad assumes "Oh you're depressed/in a bad mood" but really it just never crosses my mind to say these IMO slight trivial things. I don't care to hear about your stressful day at work. I never hear "good" things that's how our society is and this household. I love my family don't get me wrong but I just never think to say these small little bits of a conversation.

I was just about to make a thread on this topic.

Often times I just don't ever think to talk. It's almost as if I forget I have the ability to. If I need to get from point A to point B and someone is standing in my way, I'll wait patiently for them to move. I rarely ever think to say "excuse me." Same with group conversations. Unless something is directed specifically at me, I usually won't ever say anything because I don't think to. I'll listen and pay attention to what's going on, but unless something absolutely must be said, the thought never crosses my mind.

I'll have phases (not long, not even a day, but existant) where even when I want to communicate something I won't talk. If I can't type then I'll start miming instead of talking because its more natural.

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I'm like that around my parents except I do say Hi and other small things. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why that is.

lol... I'm worse. Sometimes when coworkers ask me a rhetorical question or try to tease me with a witty comment, I just ignore them. I know they are just trying to be friendly... but I feel defeated because I can't come up with a witty come back.

I went through three days straight not talking to anyone here, and people thought I was upset or sick and... I just didn't want to talk.

Sometimes it's very hard to talk even if I want to.

I get like this a lot. Sometimes I don't want to talk, sometimes I don't remember to talk, sometimes I'm trying to be in my own world or hyperfocusing and don't even realize I'm supposed to talk. Sometimes it's physically difficult to make noise come out of me.


The most annoying thing is when you acknowledge you heard someone and are paying attention by looking in their direction or something, but they won't stop trying to get your attention until you make noise, preferably in the form of words. Then I get in trouble for snapping at them... You'd think they'd learn by now!

alot of the time i dont feel like speaking to anyone either, i just try to make a conscious effort to do it so people know that i do care. social network sites help alot. i speak to my extended family far more since signing up for facebook. for some reason im more comfortable catching up with people via text.

Wow

I go into non-talking modes on occasion. Right now I am feeling very nonverbal, but my job (I'm on lunch break right now) requires I talk. But I don't feel like it today. My routine at work has been changed today and it's challenging me a lot. I am in a sort of quiet anxiety mode. If I were at home and feeling this way, I would climb into bed and darken the windows with sheets.

The thing I try to keep in mind is that a when I get to the end of my life and am laying in my deathbed, I don't want to feel like I had things more things to say. I love all the people that have blessed my life, and I truley want those relationships to be all that they can be

I can be perfectly quiet if I'm with the wrong people. Also if there's background noise or distractions of any significance, I go mute - I'm just not going to compete against that racket, so if they want me to talk they'd best get me away from it. I find it almost impossible to raise my voice unless I'm singing, so unless I want to turn my life into a grand opera, I wouldn't be heard if I did speak.

WIth the right people and low background distractions, I can talk forever. I absolutely love the attention of other people and the process of learning to give and get attention fairly, disciplining myself not to talk past the point, learning to listen but not to the exclusion of what I too have to say. What a shame the right people don't happen by very often. Because they don't have to be very wrong for me before the whole game is ruined and I just want to get rid of them before I make a social blunder or they start annoying me.