I know I can over share. I know I say things way too “deep” for neutrotypicals. I know how I take small talk into big talk with just one sentence. What are ways that you keep yourself aware in conversation to just be casual. I imagine something small to fidget with that isn’t obvious and I can use to keep me centered on being not so outright. Obviously I don’t like wearing anything but maybe something like a normal but moving or spinning finger ring would help, I can always take it off.

Is this something you guys experience, maybe recognize now, or have realized this behavior and have some mechanism to stay “normal”?

  • @[email protected]
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    213 months ago

    To add to this: take notice of how much they are sharing back. If all they are saying are acknowledgements (e.g “Yeah”, “of course”, “I hear that”, “wow, that’s crazy”) then they aren’t really with you in the conversation. The dialogue has become a monologue.

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      163 months ago

      Wait, that’s mostly what I do in many conversations… damn.