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Challenging to listen to someone talk for long periods

Kenny_1622

I work in education, and we have events which means people are talking about boring stuff for hours. I find it really challenging to listen to it especially any longer than 30 mins, I feel overwhelmed and over loaded with information and feel burnt out. So I need to take regular breaks inorder to recharge and clear my head. Does anyone else get this 

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  • I think I know what you mean. I do often find it quite difficult to listen to one person constantly for more than 10 minutes without becoming fidgety. 

    When it's personal matters, this can be a problem because I believe I have alexithymia and don't empathize even if I do sympathise.  Ultimately my impatience grows and becomes evident and the other person feels not validated.

    Not quite the same thing, but I also find it very difficult for example to be in meetings where I am clearly not really needed for most of the agenda being covered but cannot really leave and cannot work while the meetings in place.   I then end up having to work extra just to get finished what I was doing when I had to go to the meeting.

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  • I think I know what you mean. I do often find it quite difficult to listen to one person constantly for more than 10 minutes without becoming fidgety. 

    When it's personal matters, this can be a problem because I believe I have alexithymia and don't empathize even if I do sympathise.  Ultimately my impatience grows and becomes evident and the other person feels not validated.

    Not quite the same thing, but I also find it very difficult for example to be in meetings where I am clearly not really needed for most of the agenda being covered but cannot really leave and cannot work while the meetings in place.   I then end up having to work extra just to get finished what I was doing when I had to go to the meeting.

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