Minimalism

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Mimalist am I!


I don't really get into detail very much in conversation and those around me will have to launch into interogation mode to get some info out of me. As a child, I did run into the same problems not elaborating enough.

Nowdays, when I write, I am able to elaborate forever if I want too, but I can control it easiley. I wish I could do the same in conversations.

I find myself very attracted to maximliasts in conversation because I don't need to say much.

The guy I like to talk-err, listen too, once left a message on the answering machine that my parents said it said, "I'm having quite a conversation with your answering machine. . ."

Pfft, I'm covered by fair use law. You've got nothing on me!

Hmph!

I am, like many of you, a combination of both minimalism and maximalism. The attraction of minimalism in things, particularly visual ones, is that I find it very calming. A simple apartment calms me, but my parents relentlessly detailed house feels like a torture chamber.

I am amazed and comforted by reading this thread! I have always swung between the poles of minimalism and excess in many areas of my life. In written language I'm pretty terse, but can be a rambler when I speak. I prefer an orderly environment, but tolerate the chaos that comes with a packrat husband and a house full of cats. I can contribute to the chaos when I'm on a mission with a special interest, but then the minimalist kicks in and I have a monumental task of sorting and tossing. Just what I call life--looking for the balance point.

I'm a maximalist, a horder, and I tend to ramble on and on. I tend to be indecisive in discussions because I like to review all the various views and poke holes in every single one of them with the facts that don't fit neatly into the little boxes that people make for themselves. Thus I tend to be unpopular......

I'm in-between.

A bit chatting, a bit of small talk. Some niceties... all pretty balanced. 'NT-like'.

Definitely autistic though.

I keep things concise.

I probably ramble. When I don't say something I have to bite my knuckles to stop me.
Even when it's just something someone says in another conversation which is wrong, it drives me crazy, and I tend to answer questions people ask to someone else. I don't mean too, I just can't help it. Even in conversations where nothing wrong has been said, like the time someone was talking about how their dog was putting on a fake pregnancy, I couldn't help but but in and explain why that was happening. I usually am kept to my self, but when I know something, I just find it so hard to not say it.
I don't know if that makes me a big mouth or something, but I never leave out, 'irrelevant' details- I can't.
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