Interruptions!

Hal76 · Post by **Hal76** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:23 pm

I often find it hard to judge when people are going to speak during conversational situations. I thus often find myself cutting off people before they've finished or starting at the same time as someone else. I am a timid soul though and usually back down.
Does anyone else get this?

Post by **Daniel** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:03 pm

I find this all the time, it's most annoying. While everyone else can seemingly contribute to or interject within a conversation I forever stumble on top of whoever is speaking. I used to back down but now I tend to find that, so long as the person speaking isn't likely to get the hump I'll continue saying what I'd like. The reason being is that I often can't keep the thought in my head for long and by the time the chance to speak next arises my idea will have likely either drifted off or have become a jumbled mess that I'm unable to elucidate as I originally wished.

robyn · Post by **robyn** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:04 pm

yeah i do this sometimes too

donnaf · Post by **donnaf** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:25 pm

I do that too, pretty much exactly how Dan said so there's nothing else for me to add except...me too!!

rah · Post by **rah** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 4:54 pm

it happens to me a lot. it's another one of the reasons why i hate group conversations because whenever i feel able to say my piece, i end up doing it at the same time as someone else! it's quite frustrating, i hate being labelled as the "quiet one" just because of my reluctance/difficulty in contributing to conversations.

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:38 am

Aye, all the time.

I don't really have a solution. I do have good and bad moods. Which tend to correlated to quiet and glaring responses respectively.

I have a good glare.

gherkin001 · Post by **gherkin001** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 2:42 pm

Im always doing that.... It means very few people are actually still talking to me at all!!!!!!!

Lithium_joe · Post by **Lithium_joe** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:08 pm

*stands up to be counted*

ALL the damn time.

It's this that I often cite as being the social side of dyspraxia - I am an infallibly bad judge of mood and 'reading' people especially when it comes to timing an interjection of interruption.

I did it today in fact.

Someone put

over my mouth. Please.

gherkin001 · Post by **gherkin001** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:43 am

I cant get hold of any gaffer tape that would fit through my net connection to do the trick lol.... Think i need gagging first tho....

Auron · Post by **Auron** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:39 am

yeah, that happens to me, it;s most annoying when you have a good point ot make, but by the time you gewt a word in the subject has already changed ot something compleatly different.

robyn · Post by **robyn** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:20 pm

i do have this going on too, but not that bad i think, just in larger groups of people

i also allways feel obligied to fill in the gaps in conversation when noone else volenteers, maybe thats just me though!!

Lithium_joe · Post by **Lithium_joe** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:36 pm

For me it's more like this.

Scenario 1:

Person A pauses to draw breath - I start talking - they carry on talking and I've interrupted, apparently rudely.

Scenario 2

Person B stops talking. I don't realise I have a turn to speak - and someone else takes the opportunity. I am forced into silence.

Scenerio 2's are more common up and repeat themselves until I missread someone pauses and I go through Scenario 1, which given that I've probably not spoken up until that point looks like I'm talking over them.

Head

Desk.

Auron · Post by **Auron** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 10:37 am

...sorry Joe, I hadn'd actually finished my post, i was mearly stopping for breath

(how rude of him)

gherkin001 · Post by **gherkin001** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:54 pm

haha sarcastic arent we lol!!

Kirsty

Lithium_joe · Post by **Lithium_joe** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 2:33 pm