Rate of speech

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I have always had a tendency to gabble, which people thought was stress, but I do it when I'm not stressed. It's like this stuff is in my head and I have to get it out, kind of like an information download or something. I can slow down in the end, but often I will start with a rapid rate of speech.

I have read that a rapid rate of speech is one of the types of speech issues in Asperger's.

I am frequently being critisized for talking too much and too fast.
People know, that I am "the type" who collects knowledge, so they ask me about things (The little professor).
When I start talking, doubts occur, half forgotten material comes up, associations happen, and I am thinking aloud, almost completely forgetting my listeners.
Afterwards I can hear my voice babbling.

Whirling mind. I have tried having to answer a question about something, I have studied, with long passages or almost 1/4 of a page, - or answering the same question with the exact same words and facial expression as two months before
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Yes, I usually talk very fast and also jump from one thing to another as I try to get all my ideas out. However put me under stress and I can't get my thoughts together and keep losing my train of thought as I speak. Getting worse with age. Not good.

I see many people in my line of work and some speak in a very well regulated way, you can't tell from their speech that there is anything different about them, but others have marked differences in speech patterns.

Some do the typical slow monotone with little affect in their voices, others can "talk for England" and don't seem to realise that other people need a chance to get a word in edgeways.

I know one person who can do all 3 - often he is monotone but if he realises he will deliberately put in affect and his speech patterns become more typical but also, if he's excited he will gabble madly.

Speech patterns are just another of those things it is difficult for some of us to regulate, like eye-gaze, but the patterns are different for everyone. You can, as with eye contact, learn to moderate your speech patterns but it takes awareness and is very hard work for some people

I speak way too slow. As a teenager, a doctor even asked about ABI. It's gotten a lot better though.

I speak very little and when I do, it is quiet and maybe two or three words.

I tend to talk fast with too many descriptors and faster still on Spanish. I also talk too loud or too soft. My friends are always telling me I have no happy medium not even in mood regulations. Been called a drama queen too which can be annoying when I had a legitimate reason to be distressed to hell with their ideas of reasonable.

Ah I have this problem as well. I normally don't talk very much cause I don't know what to say, but once I know what I'm talking about I sometimes talk very fast as if I have to get it all out ASAP and some people have difficulty understanding my speech.

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I can talk fast when I get into the mode. My biggest speech problem is voice modulation where I get extremely loud when something is interesting to me until I'm a little tired or stressed and I'm talking barely above a mumbling whisper. I don't hear the difference so I never know when it's happening.

@Chloe13 If I get stressed I lose my train of thought very quickly as well. I thought I just had horrible memory until I realized it only happens when I'm distressed.

I speak super-fast! I was practicing a presentation with a friend earlier, and I was just talking normally, and he told me I was flying like a speeding bullet. When I slowed down to what he considered normal, I felt like I was covered in molasses...my mind kept going blank because I was talking so slow my mind would move on to something else before I finished what I was saying.

People say I either speak too fast, or too repetitiously.

So in order to help people follow what I am saying, I say it again.

But they complain that they couldn't understand what I just said, or that they already heard what I just said.

Oh well, you can't please everybody.

I am usually quiet and don't say a lot but if I am in my comfort zone at home then my brain seems to work faster than my mouth. I start talking and it's quite quick then it gets mixed up with other things I am trying to say until I get really frustrated that I haven't been able to get out what I wanted to get out. My Mrs says she finds it pretty exhausting listening to it too!