Over-explain things to avoid any potential miscommunication because you’ve felt misunderstood your entire life. It’s important to you that everyone knows exactly where you’re coming from at all times.
Repeating yourself and got to the point a long time ago but you can’t help but reiterate it all. You’ve had many bad past experiences that you will do whatever your brain deems necessary to avoid the possibility of someone misinterpreting what you were saying.
@AutisticAdam@actuallyautistic I definitely do this. Feels like if I don’t give every little detail and as accurate as possible then I’m not telling the full truth and don’t want to accidentally lie. Since I was a kid if I was quoting something I heard or that someone said to me, I had to say it verbatim or I thought I would be lying.
I didn’t know what a lie was until I was 10 years old, so I got a little extra worried I would accidentally not tell the whole truth if I wasn’t exact.
@actuallyautistic I also do it because I like ppl over-explaining things to me (or, just answering all my hyper-specific queries for clarification), so then I mirror myself and assume that everyone wants things over-explained
@AutisticAdam@actuallyautistic and then they take your hedging and clarifications to yourself as somehow accusations against them and accuse you of being a bad person and block you :)
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