Can Aspie Kids Be Very Talkative And Outgoing?

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I've always been really talkative! I just love talking to people!

my nickname used to be motormouth. Still, I had a real shyness with kids my own age.

I will talk your ears off, if you bring up something interesting! And I won't shut up.

I was always extroverted.

I'm really outgoing when I'm high.

I was told I was very talkative and outgoing as a child but, as time went on, I became a bookish introvert.

I was very talkative but very tactless...It got me into alot of trouble..I would say rude things not knowing they were rude..adults and children alike came to hate me..Things I would say would get used against me...so over time I became more shy and introverted..being constantly bullied will do that to a person...
As an adult I find that my occasional hyper-talkativeness will turn some people off from me..sometimes I know how to control it, but not always..I get excited..butt into other people's conversations...yada yada yada...other times I can hardly talk at all.

I only was talkative with my family and younger kids (sometimes a little bossy with them). My mom says I always was asking a lot of things, I learnt to read, count from 1 to 60 (thanks to my watch ), read the clock and calculate time before kindergarten.

That's the reason why my family never saw the "problem" at school, they believed I only was a shy and smart girl.

When I was younger when started talking about a topic I was interested in I would just go on and on, driving my parents crazy with stuff that is too abstract for them to understand!

Thanks for the responses, glad I am not alone in this then. I also know I had arguments a lot with my few friends... in fact, the teacher told me he didn't like me after he turned around to see my then friend being pushed by me...in fact, she had pushed me first and another girl stood up for me and said so...and apparently, he told her that she wasn't going to get her brownie badge for sticking up for me heh.

My mother took me straight out of the school after that, and we crossed paths with that teacher in a food store..and she said to him loudly, 'By the way, you will be glad to hear Kate wont be coming back to your class.. I am sending her to a private school where the teachers behave more professionally'. He went bright red.

My mother told me also that I was a very whiny baby, not wanting to lie in my cot, but hardly cried at all once I was up on my feet, even when I fell over. She says I was very stoic and didn't seem to react to hurting myself.

Whenever I bring anything up from my childhood, she says it is perfectly normal lol. Having every inch of my wardrobe covered in stickers was normal, having endless collections is normal...you get the idea.

Tonight, I noticed for the first time some of her actions...well, I noticed them before, but more because they made me uncomfortable. If anyone sits right next to her in a theatre, she leans over or gets huffy, especially if any part of them comes into contact with her. She moves her fingers a lot... was doing this tonight while we watched a concert and was on the bus. And when not doing that, she moves her foot constantly. I also remember an incident recently when we went to a restaurant and she hates anyone sitting close by...likes a table away from others. Someone was seated behind her, and she shifted her chair in and sort of muttered a bit then moved to sit next to me...the guy took offence and called her a name and she started sobbing in public... Maybe this is just me, but these things remind me of something.

This could be a page from my biography. My mom (initially) found it hard to believe I have AS because when I was young, although I didn't have many friends and did a lot of things on my own, I was EXTREMELY talkative, outgoing, and bossy. I talked early as well, was reading at 2, and went straight from "frog leaping" (didn't crawl) to walking. It'll be very interesting to see as the topic progresses if this is also Asie-typical, or if we are simply anomolies with an anomoly.

I think it varies, and really depends on the environment the aspie has growing up. Where I come from, being an aspie is... very unwelcoming, so I'm untalkative as a result of that... where as a very aspie-friendly environment would create a very talkative person.

So really, it all depends on where you grow up, and how well that particular area is supportive of aspies.

I believe that maybe those Aspies who are more talkative are more likely to also have ADHD.