Why do I talk so much?

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I really need to stop talking sometimes. Just learn to just stay quiet for a few moments. They say "silence is golden" and I couldn't agree with that more.

Today when I got to work one of my colleagues was off sick and sometimes the supervisor makes me do my least favourite task when we're one person short, although this particular task isn't something that needs to be done every day. My friend at work knows that I dislike (but I don't hate) this particular task and he said to just start working on my usual task and the supervisor won't put me on the other task. I worked it out that the supervisor probably will make me do the task I dislike, so I said to my friend, "yeah, I know that he will make me do this...." - just as the supervisor came into the room (I didn't hear him come in). My friend put his fingers to his lips and said "sshh" and pointed to where the supervisor was making his coffee.

My friend did nothing wrong at all, but I hate being shushed, and I wish I hadn't said "yeah, I know that he will make me do this...." at that time, as we'd already established that. Why did I have to say it again?

I often talk too much and end up getting shushed because of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Well, it wasn't the wrong thing but it was unnecessary and not at the right time.

I do that too.

The exact time I shouldn't say something, or should restrain my emotions, is when I let loose.

I remember I was so mad once about my gym teacher telling us to stop and leave, all because the boys had come and wanted to use the ping pong tables (though we were there first and it was our time, not theirs) -

So I imitated her mannerisms and voice, saying we have to listen to the boys, since they're boys (made some kind of a sarcastic joke). Just then my classmates looked scared, and said, Miss ___ 's right behind you! And she was standing there, she had seen me imitate her etc.
After getting over the embarrassment,
I didn't feel too bad, because she was doing the wrong thing teaching young girls to give in to anything that males say, even when the boys and their gym teacher could shut up and do something else.
They even had multiple whole fields open to them, they were in the wrong all around.

I think autism, among all the 'negatives' also entails noble and progressive things like noticing and hating unfairness or being made to do things we are against, and that's the case with you too, as well.

Last edited by blooiejagwa on 13 Mar 2020, 12:07 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Your friend didn't want to get you in trouble.

I think you said it the second time out of an inner stubborness or defiance because bowing to authority when it doesn't seem fair isn't very ASD-like

I know my friend was doing nothing wrong, he cares about me and likes to help. But it's me I'm annoyed with, for having to say something at the wrong time. I just wish that I can learn to keep quiet, although it wasn't my fault either because I didn't know he was coming into the room and I didn't hear him coming in.

I do that all the time----and people have to "shush" me.

I know how you feel---trust me....

I’ve definitely become more tactful as I’ve gotten older and more adept at masking. It’s a constant struggle though.

My wife, who is definitely neurodiverse (ADHD, PTSD, depression, and anxiety) and may also be autistic, has absolutely no filter. It’s funny sometimes and maddening sometimes.

I am generally a tactful person and I do have social filters. It's more an impulsive thing; if I feel comfortable around someone I do become very chatty and I talk too much. I don't say anything to upset people, I just say something at the wrong moment and end up getting shushed. I think it's a case of forgetting myself, for example if I was in someone's house who had a baby sleeping and we all had to talk quietly, I will talk quietly first of all but will get carried away and my voice will raise to normal level and I'll laugh or whatever - then get people going "sshh!!"
I even cringe when other people get shushed. I actually prefer "shut up", but I understand that is rude so most people wouldn't want to say that. But for some reason the "sshh" sound is so cringing to me.
In fact I remember one time I was with my cousin and we were talking about one of our family members, and then her car drew up outside our house, so my cousin nudged me and whispered "shut up!" - and I much preferred that to "sshhh". Weird, is it not?

Ithink it may be due to ADD/ADHD I never shut up, my kids never shut up, and as a teacher I get paid for talking. Now I am in quarantine I talk to myself, good morning, good evening, what do you fancy for breakfast, I'm a lost case. Some people are quiet others are animated, I get told to shut up too. But I don't.

How many languages do you talk to yourself in?

Two actually

I have the same problem. I'm a big talker and I'm always saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

Teach: Hebrew and English, I assume!

Do you know Arabic, too?

Israel literally bought Hebrew from the dead!

I do have ADHD as well and I am very chatty once I'm comfortable with people.

I have ADHD....and can be chatty on relatively rare occasions.

Because you want it fixed. You are sick of the Culture of Quiet and inefficiencies, unfairness and injustice being left to fester. Oh wait, am I having Theory of Mind problems here?