Infodumping

I'd be interested to read about your experiences of infodumping and the overlap with oversharing. There are some good YouTube videos on this topic. Mine might be one of them. It might not.

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  • I infodump and overshare.

    I accidentally did an infodump in my assessment (he asked me about my friends, I went on a 20 min infodump about orchid pollination, as you do) and he brought it up in the 'yeah you're autistic' discussion as an example.

    I also overshare, although this is mostly an instinctual difficulty in gauging what is appropriate for other people to know, and difficulty in reciprocal communication. I tend to be in either question or answer mode, not great at balancing the two. 

    Also, I just really like finding out new things and feel others should feel the same, which means when I learn a thing I think is cool, I tell everyone I meet about it for usually a few days until I find another cool thing.

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  • I infodump and overshare.

    I accidentally did an infodump in my assessment (he asked me about my friends, I went on a 20 min infodump about orchid pollination, as you do) and he brought it up in the 'yeah you're autistic' discussion as an example.

    I also overshare, although this is mostly an instinctual difficulty in gauging what is appropriate for other people to know, and difficulty in reciprocal communication. I tend to be in either question or answer mode, not great at balancing the two. 

    Also, I just really like finding out new things and feel others should feel the same, which means when I learn a thing I think is cool, I tell everyone I meet about it for usually a few days until I find another cool thing.

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  • I'd like to add to this that I have a number of friends with whom this is a perfectly serviceable communication method.

    We take it in turns to infodump/overshare for around 10-15 mins each and then swap. I am told that I am a person with whom it's hard to get close to in a short space of time, but I have a few friends who I have been close with for many years with whom I do this, and we met when I was smaller and much less good at pretending to human effectively.