Interrupting Others in a Conversation

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Do you frequently interrupt others in a conversation?

I definitely do. If something comes up in my head and I want to bring it up in a conversation, I feel an urge to say it. If I don't say it, then I absolutely cannot process what the other person is saying anymore. This creates a major problem in conversations, especially with other aspies, as they hate being interrupted. So do I, but yet I keep doing it.

es I do that too

I can usually stop myself from doing it, but as you said, it makes it even more difficult to follow the rest of the conversation.

I tend to be the one who's interrupted and then spend the rest of the conversation (and a while after) focusing on what I couldn't say. Sometimes I try to squeeze it in later, but it's never a smooth transition and I get looks that I've learned imply something along the lines of "we were done with that, why are you bringing it up again?".

I know someone who never lets me finish a sentence. It's not that she wants to talk about something else, she compulsively finishes my sentences for me. This would be irritating enough but she always wrong. She says she can't control it and just to ignore her but it makes me lose my train of thought, which is always ready to be derailed. She won't give me two seconds to finish my sentence.

I was told while working in a pharmacy that because I did not interrupt a customer talking to a pharmacist with information that I had observed that this could be life threatening. It was years ago but it stuck in my head.

I was told always speak up... The incident had to do with I had sold the customer aspirin a few minutes before they had picked up there meds. I am not a pharmacist. after the customer left the pharmacist was talking about the customers meds ans saying that they were always extra careful to ring that med out themselves because if they had purchased aspirin with it they could die.

Yikes!

We caught it in time called the patients home.

But the pharmacist said that I should not only interrupt but insist that the pharmicist be aware of any over the counter medications purchased.

Being the way I am that frightened me so much that this carried over into other parts of my life and I became this habitual interrupter. With things like 'No I tried that. No that won't work. I talked to hem/her already.' always budding in to the middle of others though processes.

I don't mean it, but it sometimes comes off as being a know it all. I just remember the info and spout...

Annoying. But I can't always control it.. Like the others have said waiting my turn to speak makes it hard to concentrate and I think that I will lose my train of thought.

I try not to interrupt people in conversation; it always happens accidentally. Other people will talk for a little bit and pause. I take this pause as a cue that I can begin talking, but just as I'm starting to say something, the other person will start to say something too and it always comes across that I'm interrupting them. However, the people in my life are used to this and don't take offense, but I always feel guilty about it and I wish I knew how to properly time conversations.

I try not to interrupt but it's the only way I can contribute to a conversation. Either I'm too quiet or I'm rude.

This is one example of how i'm a pretty bad aspie in terms of saying the wrong things at the wrong time.

I tend to say whatever comes into my head, even if its offensive, without thinking. I interrupt people at the wrong times when trying to join a conversation because I don't know when and how to do it.

Yes.

I sometimes will, but most of the time it's like the rest of you, the rest of the person's convo makes no sense anymore.

In my family if you do not interrupt then you will not get the chance to speak or if you did it would only be after listening to the other person go on for hours about how dreadful you are.

I really try not to do that to my AS son, but if he is not getting to the point sometimes I just have to cut in and say, "Could you please just spit it out?" I am like, "I thought you kids were supposed to be direct!" But unfortunately the three years he spent living with his father made him act very weasely.

It always seems like it would be rude to interrupt, but I tell thee, interrupting is the only way I'm ever able to speak to or reply to certain people when I need to, especially certain people with AS, with their tendency to monologue non-stop.