Talking really fast

[ceecee]

Hi All

 

Just wondered if talking really fast is a feature of A.S. or not.I am an adult with suspected A.s. and have always spoke really fast.i read really fast as well both outloud and when i am reading a book.At school I was always picked to be a narrator because my reading was so advanced but i was always told to slow down.

 

 

Yet other people whom i have known with a.s. my husbands friend for instance talk at a normal speed.

 

So i'm not really sure

[Bullet]

I'm pretty sure it is. I talk very fast still at thirty and was so fast as a child my dad was worried about me over it. Of course, I haven't been diagnosed so may be jumping to conclusions here.

Edited January 11, 2006 by Bullet

[ceecee]

Bullet

 

I haven't been diagnosed either but I am pretty sure i have A.S. albeit fairly mildly.

 

Incidentally one of my so called party tricks was to read a passage out from a book at break neckspeed

[Tally]

I talk really slowly. If I try to talk fast, I just 'trip' over the words and end up talking rubbish.

[ceecee]

Tally

 

I still do that as well as not pausing for breath

[Gordie]

Yep - I'm a fast-talking Aspie.

 

Especially when nervous, I've noticed. Probably coz I'm trying to get whatever I'm trying to say out of the way as quickly as I possibly can!

 

That doesn't mean I'm not prone to the "tripping" that Tally describes. Talking rubbish is a favourite pastime of mine.

 

James

[ceecee]

Gordie

 

Talking rubbish is a favourite past time of mine as well.As my husband often says 'why say one word when a hundred will do' and 'I have never known someone who can spend hours talking about nothing much at all.