become a big talker

I used to have an auto pilot feature for small talk.

Originally posted by DutyCallsBackNextYear:

I used to have an auto pilot feature for small talk.

What did you respond with when they spoke to you?

Originally posted by Arvaos ⚚:

Originally posted by DutyCallsBackNextYear:

I used to have an auto pilot feature for small talk.

What did you respond with when they spoke to you?

It ran like a program oddly enough like the AI chat bots today.
I'd store all the information in a certain way that it would just come out with the right prompt.

I could be genuinely sociable too but often it was auto pilot for such things.

Say I’m autistic and walk away

Originally posted by Yungplague:

Say I’m autistic and walk away

Have you ever done that to a girl?

Short answers. "Yes.", "No.", "Maybe.", "No time..."

Sometimes i would say that i´m not in the mood to talk.

If i feel like it i would just turn it into deep talk, or give overly long answers, so they wouldn´t bother to say anything any more. "How are You doing?" "Oh - today? It´s a long story, but let me start with how it began last week so You understand it better..." Once i would do an experiment and just not stop talking when someone talked to me in a pub. The person ran away after a while. But i began with that i vowed a vow to not talk for three years and now i have to let it all out, and that i´m glad that he opened a conversation... I had bet with a friend about how to stop people from talking to You, without saying that You don´t want to talk with them - ever... Another bet was about that one would need to get a free drink of someone, after provoking them, to the point that they would try to beat You up, and them calm them down, to settle this with a drink, because they would understand that they overreacted. I´m not so bad with people i guess, but he chose an easy person. The biggest guy in the room, bald, wearing a bomber jacket and these combat boots. So a "far right" person. Like they´re easy to provoke if You tell them how ungerman and cowardly they are - and easy to calm down if You make clear that You only wanted to test them because "we´re on the same side".

Else i´m lucky to live in a country which isn´t too much about small talk. Small talk here looks like "Hi." "Hello." - and if someone starts about talking about the weather it might be meant ironic - except it´s older people. Which is in the part i live now - where i grew up the people are much more talk active, but probably also not much into small talk.

Originally posted by mare:

become a big talker

Actually, this would probably work.

"How are you?"
"My son died yesterday."
>________________________________>
*never talks to you again*

I dedicate one side of my brain to listening and responding appropriately as per social conventions, and the other side to continuing my thoughts about internal combustion engines

Im the boss at my job, its my way or the highway.