I over-explain because I feel like if it were being explained to me, I would want all that extra context.
I somehow managed to get pretty good at getting a good feeling of “did this person understood what I want them to understand?” and I adapt my level of overexplaining based on that feeling.
It’s something I wish other people did to me as well, as I hate it when people keep talking more to make the same point I already got. Tbh sometimes I even wish people would stop mid-sentence if I already autocompleted their sentence in my head.
Audio communication is too slow. If Humans can’t evolve to communicate telepathically, language itself should evolve to account for this. Here’s what I propose:
- we develop a mathematical formula to generate a fingerprint/signature for sentences we intent to say;
- before saying anything, we calculate this fingerprint in our head, then say this fingerprint result, followed by the actual thing we want to say
- the listener then gets this fingerprint result and keeps in mind; whenever it tries to predict what the full sentence from the speaker is going to be, it calculates the fingerprint for the predicted sentence and compares it to the fingerprint received at the start.
- if the fingerprints match, then the listener reports: “I got it” and the speaker can then skip saying the rest of their sentence.
Surely this is bound to improve communication for everyone and would have no downsides whatsoever.
(Sorry, the amphetamines must be kicking in right about now).
tl;dr I feel is exactly this
What could go wrong?
Yeah, plus if I don’t then they fill in the gaps with their assumptions!
Actually I overexplain less now after realizing they just go with their assumptions anyway.
You gotta give body cues; turn away slightly, start to walk adjacent, nod non-commitally, and then wave farewell
So many of these comics read more as autism than ADHD.
I do this a lot… guilty
now kith
…is this loss?
