As an autistic woman with chatty coworkers I wonder this all the time. I usually try to identify who regularly continues the conversation and give those people more details unprompted, and just give the small talk reply to people who use it as a way to say hi

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i stick w that until they ask further bc sometimes they’re just doing it to be “polite” and don’t actually care which has never made any sense to me 😔

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I do for the most part because Ik I forget to ask people how there’s was unless I think they’re just responding to be polite (like if they don’t give any additional details other than it was good but if they give more details I will)

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I can’t help but blab a little, I find that if I give a little detail and then ask back (esp women) they’ll give me the same and it’s like we’re friendly without needing to dive deeper. The hard part is which details to include

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It’s usually appropriate to give a high level and let them ask a follow up question if they want more detail. Say something like “it was good! I got to see my family. How was yours?”

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