Neurodivergent on Sidechat | Neurotypicals do realize they don’t have to fill every silence, right? It’s okay to shut up even if someone else is in the room.

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Neurodivergent 11w

Neurotypicals do realize they don’t have to fill every silence, right? It’s okay to shut up even if someone else is in the room.

Anonymous 11w

i fear this is me as an audhd.. i cannot sit in silence lol i always have to say something

Anonymous 11w

I fear this is not an isolated neurotypical vs neurodivergent thing as neurodivergence covers a lot of different disorders and all people have different styles and ways we were raised to act in those situations

Anonymous

#1 11w

fr my adhd got me yapping sometimes

Anonymous

#1 11w

nah fr i can never tell if it’s an awkward silence or not

Anonymous

#1 10w

Yup me too

Anonymous

#4 10w

This is more about what the person is saying being meaningless. There is no point—no information that is useful is being shared, and it is only to fill the silence. I find this to be because neurotypicals are more afraid of awkwardness than some of us.

Anonymous

#1 10w

Yeah but at least y’all share cool shit. It’s when the info shared is useless and uninteresting and just used to fill empty space that it gets annoying. Like yes I’d love to know more about owl’s talons.

Anonymous

OP 10w

There’s a language spoken by a tribe in the Amazon rainforest (Pirahã) that has no numbers or colors.

Anonymous

OP 10w

Oh I forgot to mention that Australians call flip flops thongs

Anonymous

OP 10w

I actually have the opposite problem typically so it’s weird how life works out