How fast do you talk?

[Full Steam]

I talk fast, sometimes too fast for people to get your meaning, and sometimes trip over words as my mouth tries to keep up with my mind.

This varies a lot though, which I don't see NTs doing.

If it's an idea Im explaining, I'm going to be at full speed to get the idea out into the world.

 

[The Penguin]

Not that fast but he speaks very fast

 

[Inator]

I usually talk fast, akin to Chile's fast spanish. When I'm inspired though, I talk Very fast and more than necessaty. When I'm in low mood, some stuttering is unavoidable (not always, only from time to time; fixes itself alone then come back at random)

 

[Momo]

I talk at light speed! No one shall ever understand a thing I say! Mwhahaha!

 

[WittyAspie]

My speech is all over the place, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. It really depends on my mood. If I get excited I can go pretty quick for someone raised in the South. Sometimes I channel I inner Boomhauer just to see if any of my Northern friends can keep up.

 

[Flinty]

My speech speed also depends on mood. Slow means I'm sad. Slightly faster than that is best. Fast is the worst, though.

 

[Tyrantus1212]

My speech often depends on mood as well. Whenever I feel happy, I talk fast and loud. I can get pretty hyper during those moments, and my voice can even vary in pitch. Whenever I'm nervous though (which is a lot) and make attempts to sound serious, I speak in a rather monotone voice; not too slow, not too fast.

 

[SusanLR]

Depends on mood and subject.
When I am excited explaining something, an idea or angry, very fast.
Depressed or just mellow, very slow or just quiet.
In between the opposites, a little slow.
Same with the pitch of speech.
I've been told to slow down and that I'm talking too loudly when excited.
Just normal, I've been told I sound rather expressionless or even hypnotic. Monotone.
Depressed or mellow, I am told I talk too low and to speak up. Then that makes me angry and I DO!

 

[Suzanne]

I guess fast, because my husband is always going on about me not having any pauses in my conversations, nevermind punctuation!

My voice also raises when I am animated. It is so weird, because to me, I am not shouting and yet, I can lower it, when prompted.

Before I knew about aspergers, I felt crushed that I was a "loud" person. I have this thing in me, that I want to be dainty and quiet sort of girl, so would be mortified to be told to quieten down and so, why I end up not even talking, because it is better that way, than to experience the emotional pain that goes along with being told you shout.

I do not struggle so much now with feeling crushed when I am told to hush up, because finally I know the reason why I do it.

 

[Gracey]

I think with me too, it will all depend on the subject and situation. I can get so confused sometimes I'm rendered speechless and can also be so enthused and confident in my knowledge that I can keep up and even set the pace or lead the discussion on that subject.

 

[xudo]

sometimes trip over words as my mouth tries to keep up with my mind.

This happens to me quite a lot. I speak faster again if I am worked up in any way about something.

 

[Jimbo]

I have a tendancy to talk very fast and anxiously, but with practice and being aware of it I have learned to slow it down so that people can understand what I am saying. Especially since I speak with a very deep backwoods accent that out of towners don't get.

I also preach in several churches so I have to concentrate on speaking clearly and slowly.

 

[Peeweezers]

I've had court reporters tell me to slow it down, they can't keep up. On numerous occasions.

 

[Dusty285]

I adapted from the American northeast cities to the way Rural Texas talks. Not the accent or even much of the vernacular, but I slowed down my speech and it has stayed there. I am/was blue collar and worked most of my life with guys who had been real cowboys when they were young. [Note that in that movie, John Wayne spoke the truth when he said that a cowboy only does that because there is nothing else left. Everybody who ever was a real cowboy hates cows; how stupid they are and how much unimaginably unpleasant and uncomfortable hard work is needed to care for them.]

Once I discovered that I am an Aspie I observed that my thread of speech start out in the usual NT mode and then changes direction. Those changes of direction catch NT's totally by surprise and leave them trying to figure out what happened. NT's do not like my changes of conversational direction at all.

 

[Karen S.]

I'm in New England, we talk "wicked" fast here! I don't have a Boston Accent though, that seems to be confined to the Urban Coast Towns, and Worcester (locals call it "Woosta").