As a child, were you extremely talkative or very quiet?

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As a child, up to about school age, I was talkative and social. As time when on, I became quiet and bookish.

The mother of my best friend, from schooldays, summed me up a few years back:
"Once upon a time you couldn't get him to say a word - now you can't get him to shut up!"

I still don't do "small talk". I'll only talk about my "specialist" subjects. However, they now include everything but sports and politics.

In my case, I was a very quiet child in most respects.

VERY quiet. These days I am quiet 90% of the time with little spurts of over-talkativeness.

I was talkative, always talking, talking about nothing and everything. Any thought that came into my mind, from "that old man has huge ears!! !" to "the sun set exactly 2 minutes later today than yesterday" came spewing forth, even if no one was around. My biggest problem my whole life was keeping my dang mouth shut.

I was practically mute around strangers and new situations. Once I was comfortable, I wouldn't shut up. Apparently I also had a problem using my "indoor voice".

from what i remember i was always very quiet.

i had my own language when i was younger that no one could understand, so i didnt talk properly until i was 5/6ish, ive actually got quieter now im older

I was totally a "speak when spoken to" kind of kid. I seriously, honestly don't think I understood the concept of approaching people to start a conversation.

When young I was very talkative, and would talk peoples' ears off about topics that only I cared about. When I got a little older I went to the other extreme.

I was very talkative, until my parents started scolding me for going on about my obsessions and complaining about my accent. After that, I became very quiet.

I was very talkative as a kid. That did not sit well with my family, especially my parents, so until the age 4 or so, I actually thought my name was Bequiet (from being told to "be quiet" all the time). My preschool teachers, however, were a somewhat tolerant of my talkativeness. One of them actually told me that my real name was not Bequiet.

Very, very quiet. I still am a lot of the time.

Make me wonder what an ASpie convention would be like ?? All silent, too afraid to chat with one another??

After a late start, I was a chatterbox around people I knew. Strangers, that was a different thing - I hardly ever spoke.