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[–] PunnyName 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sorry. I'm that talker. And I'll do it the moment I wake up, too.

I don't know how I can do it, and it fascinates me.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You know you push boundaries by making people engage with you in conversation when they don't want to? Yet apparently continue doing it? And that fascinating you?

That's very confusing to me. Uh, are you neurodivergent...?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Read the useless facts, memorize the useless facts, and have the urge to regurgitate the useless facts to anyone with working ears. That's Asperger's in a nutshell.

Great for engineering and programming. Not so great for interacting with regular humans.

[–] PunnyName 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes

I don't do inane convos, however. I want genuine discussion.

I know how to read the room, and I try not to be disruptive, but it's very difficult, almost painful to not have conversation when another human is around.

Also finding stuff fascinating is prolly WHY I have these issues in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The desire to share whatever new fascinating thing you read about is super strong, isn't it

[–] PunnyName 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just want to have a conversation. What I've just read about isn't always the point of discussion. I like learning about the people I talk to, mostly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Then we're two fundamentally different types of talkers, huh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think impulse control is a factor, they just have to talk to that person and can't wait any more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Well this is different from my experience .. my whole working life I’m accused of being the antisocial one because I’m not tripping balls at everyone in the morning.

There I was sipping coffee and desiring my space for contemplation… and that is the ‘norm’?

I feel seen.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you the opposite at night?

[–] PunnyName 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nope. I can literally have engaging conversation all day until I pass out from exhaustion, then do it again the next day.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are an enigma. We should be studying you.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat 2 points 1 year ago

You study her. I'm still waking up.