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FrogGirl
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21 May 2009, 2:24 pm

when making a point to someone, do you find yourself running it into the ground, going on and on even after they have agreed with you? Is this an AS thing?



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21 May 2009, 3:30 pm

FrogGirl wrote:
when making a point to someone, do you find yourself running it into the ground, going on and on even after they have agreed with you? Is this an AS thing?

Yes, I can do that at times, but I have no idea if it's an AS thing. It may be related to some of us liking to argue, which I guess you could argue might be an AS thing...


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21 May 2009, 3:41 pm

What? Why that's preposterous! I don't like to argue! I take issue with your assumption that...

... oh :oops: .

Okay, I agree with the fiddlerpianist. Both with the doing it myself and the not being sure if it is indicative of the condition as a whole. The dark gift manifests differently in each of us.



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21 May 2009, 5:41 pm

I think it actually might be (I have it too), because it's tied in with the repetitive side of AS - the tendency to get stuck on one idea and repeat it over and over like a broken record - finding it hard to switch to the next topic, even if you know the argument is over.


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21 May 2009, 5:52 pm

Absolutely, it's the getting stuck issue, coupled with the reciprocity problem. I corrected this in myself so many years ago that I didn't remember it anymore. But I used to be a bad case of this. I rarely relapse nowadays. Then again, I've suppressed so many of my Aspie ways of conversing with people that nowadays I'm so silent in company that I have to unglue my lips when I come back home.


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