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Scripting and rehearsing conversations

NAS81317

Hey everyone. Having also read recently about the concept of scripting and rehearsing conversations in advance apparently being common in autism, I'm interested what this place has to say about it. 

In what ways do you script and rehearse conversations in advance? Personally, I really relate to rehearsing what to say in advance, but it's never felt because of social anxiety. 

I have fake conversations in my head all the time, even for ones that probably won't happen. My head feels like a letter box fulled with separate future conversations that I know I'll need to make and even for former friends who aren't around anymore. Even speaking to my family members requires planned conversation in advance, I have no idea how normal people can have spontaneous conversation for hours on end. 

I can only think of what to say in life, I don't feel authentic and never have. I'll prepare phrases, topics and even jokes sometimes. If I stopped planning, I wouldn't have anything to say. 

Does any of this sound on someone on the spectrum? Thanks 

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  • I run numerous scenarios when I need to have a social or business meeting.  This gets me prepared to every foreseeable eventuality.  Key sentences are delivered verbatim from my script.  I never write them down, just hold the options in my head ready for use.

    I do a similar level of planning and drafting for written communication.

    WARNING - I have faced some very embarrassing situations where I have I thought that I have delivered some of this scripted content from my head (or drafted written content) to a recipient - but have not.  This is one of the risks of thinking and preparing too much!  It has happened in my head - not in reality.  Care is required with prep.

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  • I run numerous scenarios when I need to have a social or business meeting.  This gets me prepared to every foreseeable eventuality.  Key sentences are delivered verbatim from my script.  I never write them down, just hold the options in my head ready for use.

    I do a similar level of planning and drafting for written communication.

    WARNING - I have faced some very embarrassing situations where I have I thought that I have delivered some of this scripted content from my head (or drafted written content) to a recipient - but have not.  This is one of the risks of thinking and preparing too much!  It has happened in my head - not in reality.  Care is required with prep.

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