Thinking Too Fast | ADHD Information
You know that when I am talking to a person and someone interrupts me then they turn around and say sorry I will totally forget what I am saying even if it is 30 seconds have passed. it takes you 30 seconds?It only takes me half a second sometimes..... hell I'll lose thoughts mid-speech
I need some help. I have a problem with my thoughts moving faster than my mouth can move and I get so overloaded. It really gets on my nerves 
were I just want to close myself up in a hole and just not talk to anyone
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Why is that?
I don't know... quite simply I don't know....but I know it happens to me....
I just make a joke out of it.... I studder for a second and then start just saying quite literally
"blah blah blah.....blah blah blah blah....where was I?"
They're briefly chuckling and it gives me a couple seconds to start back up again and move along.
I have to force myself to talk slower (which makes me sort my thoughts better). I allow myself pauses when I talk and hopefully the other person understands. It's better than talking all over them. I also try to clear my mind when the person is talking so that I really hear what they are saying instead of thinking of what I will say. Not easy.
So basically gypsy womyn were are between a rock and a hard place and a no win situation when we try to talk to someone but question for everyone around what about staying on the same subject. I find it difficult when I am talking to someone I tend to jump from one subject to anotherone without knowing what happen.
And before I know it we are talking about 100 things at one time.
Missinglink....Change subjects? Who, me? Nah, never! 
Actually, I once had a friend with whom we'd both do this...and never skip a beat. We'd follow one another through 100 different topics, and end right back where we started. 
I never considered whether she was AD/HD (didn't know I was myself back then), but unfortunately, she's no longer with us. Boy, do I miss our conversations.
Too often talking with people and doing this, you hear "You're interrupting me!" Whooses
GypsyWomyn38480.6806712963I was and I finished them off and never got back on them again. I am trying to get back on them again but I think that the rate I am going I will never get back to it again unless I get someone to grab me by the ear and take me there. [QUOTE=addbec] I have to force myself to talk slower (which makes me sort my thoughts better). I allow myself pauses when I talk and hopefully the other person understands. It's better than talking all over them. I also try to clear my mind when the person is talking so that I really hear what they are saying instead of thinking of what I will say. Not easy.[/QUOTE]
When I've tried this...especially stopping/pausing to think before I speak...whomever I'm talking with will quite often think I have nothing to say...and actually walk away!
I don't even have the opportunity to say "one moment, I need to think about this," or "just give me a moment, please." Very frustrating. 
Or they continue talking. And I try to say "Excuse me, I'm not finished." Yet if I talk really fast, no one wants to listen either, or can't keep up with me. Is there no happy medium?Please everyone speak up I want to hear everyones thoughts and don't be afraid if you go off the subject on to another that is why are a adhd'ers. Thoughts I need thoughts. [QUOTE=missinglink] Well I do not have a low tolerance for frustration I am very patient with everyone it takes alot to get to me.[/QUOTE]
How fortunate you are! Although I am improving. Which is definitely to my benefit and health.
Missinglink...are you currently on meds for AD/HD? I believe they are really helping my thoughts slow down. Hallaleuha! I even think before totally losing my temper. I still get really pissed off, but stop and think...or even walk away now. Then after I've cooled down...I can handle whatever it was that set me off to begin with.
Also, that's why I love typing to communicate...(am I repeating myself? duh..who remembers?
) Anyway, it's great when my fingers can keep up with my brain. I've said this again and again...if only I could carry a miniature keyboard and screen around my neck, and talk to people with that. 
Whenever I see a movie with some smooth talker like Matthew McConaughey or Kevin Costner I get jealous and wish that I could emulate their speech patterns.
I am accused of being rude & not listening simply because I need to get all the ideas out of my head into the conversation because I will forget it all 5 seconds later. I interrupt a lot and talk "at" people.Good luck!
I was on a date a while back, and in the middle of a sentence I clean forgot what I was saying, and even what the topic of my conversation was.
I don't think the guy was even listening anyway, he was probably trying to look down my top, and thinking dirty thoughts.
When i said, what was I talking about? He had no idea. I just had to say, oh well never mind, and change the subject. 
That is a frustrating problem, especially when it's something important like a job interview! I have a terrible time expressing my thoughts, it never comes out how I want it to. I think that's something most AD[H]Ders go thru tho?
**LoL Eliza, sounds like a winner! ;-)
Marita38482.8771643518[QUOTE=Reizende]I am accused of being rude & not listening simply because I need to get all the ideas out of my head into the conversation because I will forget it all 5 seconds later. I interrupt a lot and talk "at" people.[/QUOTE]
Cheers! I have the exact same problem, especially when it's something that I'm very adement about.. When a discussion with my wife gets a little heated my need to jump in with my point before she's done explaining hers makes it turn into a full blown fight.. But I know that if I don't say it when I'm thinking it I will forget it and my views won't get expressed. She'd win every time. So catch-22.. Either I never get my point across, or the fight gets so bad that we just have to get away from each other and nothing gets resolved.