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How much do you talk?

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For me not a lot.

I find talking difficult. I don't know what to say, how to make my face react along with speech. I find it overwhelming and exhausting. I also suffer from CFS as well as autism and even a short conversation requires me to have a 20 min nap so I reclaim some much needed energy.

When I was little I didn't talk much then. I find that I need to judge whether it's worth me speaking, which sometimes I feel makes me come across a little rudely when I'm not I'm just trying to do what's best for me.

Sometimes I talk to myself, not in a crazy way mind, just where I say what I'm thinking which helps me think and work things out. 

Generally I stay silent though. Talking is tiring and it's stressful. I feel happier when I'm saying nothing.

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    I find conversation quite difficult, never know what to say. I'm 70yrs old now but i can remember when i was only little, i'd ask my Mum things and she used to say.....I'll tell you when you're 21, so i stopped asking and feel  i never really learnt to talk. Seems funny to be saying that at my age now. I can remember watching Tv shows like Parkinson, and he'd have guests on who had the whole studio interested & laughing, and i'd try and figure out why it was easy for them. I'm not stand-offish, i'd like company. Again, at my age there's no way things are going to change.