Spastic Conversations

[Ken]

Does anyone have a problem with conversations with someone that speaks fast or in fragmented or incomplete sentences and/or abrupt subject changes? I find this very jarring, like tripping on a rock or falling in a pothole. I call such communications “spastic conversation.” I guess it is also called small talk?

I also find interruptions in a conversation to be likewise jarring. It derails me.

Also, if two or more people talk at the same time, I am unable to understand either one of them. The result sounds like a foreign language. I get the same effect if I am talking and someone talks over me. I can’t understand any of what they said during the conversation collision.

Anybody else have any of these issues?

 

[George Newman]

I experience the same frustration and issues that you have detailed above. More so the later experience than the first.

 

[GadAbout]

Two people talking to me at the same time: I can't understand either.

 

[Bolletje]

My boyfriend has a propulsive speech pattern, in that he’ll start talking and emit words at a very high speed, often in several languages mixed together, with neologisms and references to obscure material. I’ve gotten used to it, but my family has trouble understanding what he says quite frequently.

 

[Gracey]

If I'm tired or stressed I lack the motivation to want to try to understand what's just been said.
(too much like hard work)


There have been times I have listened to another talking at me,
changing the topic or subject frequently without my realising.

I haven't tracked the changes and so still believe they're discussing the same topic.
It can be a great source of amusement. The random and nonsensical amuses me

 

[Progster]

I find it impossible to try to hold a conversation where more than one person is speaking close by in the same room. I often wonder how people who work in call centres manage to have conversations on the phone when there are so many people all around them also having conversations in the same room. Perhaps they get used to it and are able to tune it out. Also, talking over the top of me? I hate that. It's rude, it's annoying.

Another issue I have is when people leave bits of information out and leave me to fill in the missing bits - and I can't, so I don't have the full picture. That's bad communication on their part.

Also, acronyms... people who slip these into conversations and expect me to know what they are talking about.

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

t can be a great source of amusement. The random and nonsensical amuses me

You called

 

[Fridgemagnetman]

Also, acronyms... people who slip these into conversations and expect me to know what they are talking about.

Bananas

 

[clg114]

Two people talking to me at the same time: I can't understand either.

I find it impossible to try to hold a conversation where more than one person is speaking close by in the same room.

I can not understand two voices at once ether. If it is more than two voices, I may as well be in a hen house full of clucking chickens. Because that is what it sounds like to me.

 

[Peter Morrison]

I suffer from the same affliction - I can't follow 2 forms of input at the same time. I could never take good class notes because I couldn't write and listen simultaneously. Today, I can't read and listen to someone. The voice cuts off my reading comprehension.

 

[Lemongrab]

We don't want people using the word "autistic" in a negative context, so maybe we could be sensitive to people who live with cerebral palsy and not use the word spastic.