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Changing the Subject?

AutisticBeaut2025

Would you say that changing the subject to completely something random is part of the "Failure of Normal Back- and- Forth Conversation" autistic trait or is it more silence and no reply? 

I've had a look at previous posts and I can't find it mentioned anywhere else but just wondered what your thoughts were?

Let me know

Many Thanks

xx 

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  • I think 'failure of normal back-and-forth conversation' covers both of those, really. I have a habit of what I call 'topic chaining' in my head during a conversation. That's when my brain essentially does word association - like, say we are talking about trains, I then think of travel, then maybe I think of Wales (where I'm from), then the Welsh language, then a Welsh place, then an actor who grew up there, then a show they were in. And I then change the conversation to the show the actor was in. But to the other person, it seems like a completely unrelated topic. 

    Then the silence side of things happens for me when someone says something and I either don't have a reply, or their comment feels as though it doesn't demand one - although it usually does, and I am misreading it. But both definitely fall under failure of normal back-and-forth conversation.

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  • I think 'failure of normal back-and-forth conversation' covers both of those, really. I have a habit of what I call 'topic chaining' in my head during a conversation. That's when my brain essentially does word association - like, say we are talking about trains, I then think of travel, then maybe I think of Wales (where I'm from), then the Welsh language, then a Welsh place, then an actor who grew up there, then a show they were in. And I then change the conversation to the show the actor was in. But to the other person, it seems like a completely unrelated topic. 

    Then the silence side of things happens for me when someone says something and I either don't have a reply, or their comment feels as though it doesn't demand one - although it usually does, and I am misreading it. But both definitely fall under failure of normal back-and-forth conversation.

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