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Scripting and rehearsing conversations

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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 script a lot of the time if I have something important to say, especially if I can't do it straight away. Sometimes I write things down otherwise I keep myself awake at night rehearsing. I do it if I have phone calls to make at work and the worst thing with this is if I get an ansaphone as I then panic. I have been known to call back again when I have rehearsed the message 

    Also when I go on a walk I keep a list in my head of interesting things I saw whilst out. I understand that my observations of unusual things are probably an autistic trait. Maybe that is why not many other people I know do the same.

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  • I script a lot of the time if I have something important to say, especially if I can't do it straight away. Sometimes I write things down otherwise I keep myself awake at night rehearsing. I do it if I have phone calls to make at work and the worst thing with this is if I get an ansaphone as I then panic. I have been known to call back again when I have rehearsed the message 

    Also when I go on a walk I keep a list in my head of interesting things I saw whilst out. I understand that my observations of unusual things are probably an autistic trait. Maybe that is why not many other people I know do the same.

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