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Do you have the "aspie pause?"
Yes 81%  81%  [ 66 ]
No 5%  5%  [ 4 ]
...the cheese stands alone... 14%  14%  [ 11 ]
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11 Mar 2007, 1:59 am

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I always pause because I try to understand what they said exactly so I don't make an ass out of myself, though I do anyway WITH the pause. :?


Here Here...I totally agree with this



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11 Mar 2007, 2:02 am

aylissa wrote:
My husband just told me that I don't do this "so much" in person, but definitely when we talk on the phone. I hate phone conversations, and cell phone conversations are the worst. I'm pretty sure I have central auditory processing disorder, which may account for the pause. Thanks for bringing up this topic. Very interesting.


:D I just couldn't resist...do you have a phone in your cell????



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11 Mar 2007, 8:30 pm

I can definately relate to the pause. Not just in conversation though. If I'm listening to a joke I'll usually laugh a little later than most.



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11 Mar 2007, 9:34 pm

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I just couldn't resist...do you have a phone in your cell????

You must not be from the States. I've heard other countries call them "mobile", pronounced in the way we here refer to people who are ambulatory. LOL. Or else mo' bile, which to me would mean that somebody else has more bile (a product of the gall bladder); mo' being common slang here for 'more'. For the most part, here in the States we refer to that dastardly piece of technology simply as "cell", as in "What's your cell number?" or "Call me on my cell" or "I'd like to take this cell and chuck it down the toilet because the service sucks and I can't hear a gosh darned thing on it"



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11 Mar 2007, 9:48 pm

aylissa wrote:
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I just couldn't resist...do you have a phone in your cell????

You must not be from the States. I've heard other countries call them "mobile", pronounced in the way we here refer to people who are ambulatory. LOL. Or else mo' bile, which to me would mean that somebody else has more bile (a product of the gall bladder); mo' being common slang here for 'more'. For the most part, here in the States we refer to that dastardly piece of technology simply as "cell", as in "What's your cell number?" or "Call me on my cell" or "I'd like to take this cell and chuck it down the toilet because the service sucks and I can't hear a gosh darned thing on it"


mo' is low class slang! Frankly, I wouldn't be caught dead saying it!

We DO sometimes call them mobile PHONES!

cell refers to an area of coverage! cell PHONE is the PROPER name for a phone used IN the cell!

BTW toilet can be called other things like in MA where it could be called a HOPPER!

And YES, I AM from the US! Born in California, and I have been all over!

Steve



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11 Mar 2007, 10:08 pm

WTF? Steve, if you yell at me one more time, I'm throwing your telephone in the crapper.



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11 Mar 2007, 11:20 pm

mariiha wrote:
Too often I react before the conversing person has even finished because I intuitively know what they are going to say next, which really sucks because I can't keep my mouth shut...people just look at me like I am some sort of kook...they are probably right, too


me too!

like in a simpsons episode:
someone is speaking, and then Lenny stands up, saying
- I like to interrupt people!

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12 Mar 2007, 6:24 am

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WTF? Steve, if you yell at me one more time, I'm throwing your telephone in the crapper.


OK, I'll take that as a joke, even if I don't like WTF... 8-)



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12 Mar 2007, 6:07 pm

You don't like WTF?
I don't like it when people YELL AT ME IN ALL CAPS FOR NO GOOD REASON A'TALL



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12 Mar 2007, 11:02 pm

I haven't noticed that I pause. I think you are reading too much into it, I seriously doubt it's a sign of anything much. I tend to just babble on about whatever comes to my head, as though on autopilot; clutching at straws because I have nothing interesting to say, then I worry for 1/2 an hour afterwards that I've said something stupid.



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12 Mar 2007, 11:14 pm

aylissa wrote:
You don't like WTF?
I don't like it when people YELL AT ME IN ALL CAPS FOR NO GOOD REASON A'TALL


The caps were for emphasis, I wasn't yelling.

Steve



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12 Mar 2007, 11:41 pm

I have the Aspie pause, especially when I am nervous.


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