I hate it when I do that. But I never seem to be able to avoid it. I almost feel sorry for the poor soul who gets trapped by my endless droning about something that I think is so cool.

Does anybody else here do this ?


ME :D

Well, I rant but I do not require an audience :D.

Booyah! But is THAT a problem for me.

My job frequently requires that I make presentations to upperlevel management/directors. I have to memorize my presentations, because it's too risky letting me extemp it, because I go into these verbal 'loops' where I'll start saying stuff, then realize I forgot what I just said, but am not sure I did, so I start restating the same thing, but in slightly different verbage.

I end up writing alot of my speeches, then recording them on a CD or something, and listen to it in my car, what have you, until I have it memorized.

If, when those times I can feel I'm getting off track, I stop and ask my audience if they have questions, etc., while I briefly look at my notes to get myself back to the point I wanted to make.

Or, as I do more informally with my coworkers or friends...I just stop myself and ask...'Did what I just said make sense? Because it sounded BRILLIANT in my head!'

Not sure if this is the same as what you are describing, Speedo, but I find a lot that I can't just give anyone short explanations when they would more than suffice. Instead, I go into every minute detail that seems important to me but more than likely has minimal bearing on what I am trying to explain. Instead of a sentence, I end up with a rambling diatribe. I am especially bad at leaving short and to the point voicemails, like "Hey! It's Dave. Call me when you get a chance." I am more likely to hear the annoying voice that says that my message length has reached the limit and "do you want to rerecord or send it?" If I try rerecording the message while speaking faster and trying to limit what I am saying I end up right back to the maximum length again.

Frustrating, and I don't know how to make it stop sometimes. Like now. I have probably made my point already but I feel the urge to keep typing. There might be some detail that I missed. ;)

I used to have the same problem too. I'd also write really loooong e-mails.

Thing is, if someone was endlessly droning on I'd be seriously annoyed/bored...then I realized the other person probably felt the same way whenever I talked.:D

So I worked on becoming concise with my talking/writing and I've made some major improvements.:cool:

My rants can be pretty amusng or so I hear...:D I am wickedly sarcastic when consumed by a rant.

I constantly annoy my carpool partner from work with my latest and greatest idea or interest. I'll ask him if he knows anything about the subject and then explain what it is and why I think it's cool. This can sometimes last all the way to work... and sometimes I pick up right where I left off for the ride home as well. It usually seems to induce ADD like symptoms in him.:eek:

I constantly annoy my carpool partner from work with my latest and greatest idea or interest. I'll ask him if he knows anything about the subject and then explain what it is and why I think it's cool. This can sometimes last all the way to work... and sometimes I pick up right where I left off for the ride home as well. It usually seems to induce ADD like symptoms in him.:eek:LMAO! Foghat, that's priceless! And I am not laughing at you, just laughing near you :cool:.

I'm glad you find me as entertaining as I do... :D

I'm glad you find me as entertaining as I do... :DYVW and you enjoy myself too.

speedo,

So many of my friends and biz associates are missing large chucks of both ears cause of me.

Spark a conversation on a subject that interests me, and you've had it. Hell, I won't let you get a word in edge wise till I've exhausted every imaginable angle and a few unimagiable ones.

Clue that we are overboard: Non-ADHD friends develope severe ADHD symptoms during "conversation."

Bob

Spark a conversation on a subject that interests me, and you've had it. Hell, I won't let you get a word in edge wise till I've exhausted every imaginable angle and a few unimagiable ones.


Yep.
I'm, like taht in 'realtime' conversational dialogue, too.

I do what I call Branches or Loops where I go on and on and either branch off so bad that I forget what I initially started with (subjectwise) or just talk in "loops" where I forget that I covered something and re-cover it and meds make me not want to talk at all so it varies

My family is always getting irritated with me for "going on and on". Part of the time, it's because I'm trying to explain that the topic I'm going on about didn't just come out of nowhere -- another frequent complaint of theirs.

The other part is that I'm trying to get at the exact truth of what I'm trying to say and hey dude, truth is complicated and multifaceted and constantly changing and wait I also need to explain why I used "dude" back there because I'm a 53 year old woman. I just started hearing truth being talked about by Keanu Reeves and isn't that what he'd say, "multifaceted,dude." Funny, no? NO is the usual response.

Dude, you just described about every conversation I have when the subject is something that I know or care about. Long winded doesn't even begin to describe me at time. The good news is that I am starting to notice it, and will cut myself off mid rant with something like, .....long story short, XYZ happened.

It's the nature of the beast.

Dude, you just described about every conversation I have when the subject is something that I know or care about. Long winded doesn't even begin to describe me at time. The good news is that I am starting to notice it, and will cut myself off mid rant with something like, .....long story short, XYZ happened.This is what I do too, or if I am really on a roll, I rant into the air :o and explain that I am just on a rant, move along, nothing to look at here.

Fortunately, my Kids rant too...and they write theirs DOWN :eek: man, that's gonna be one scary book if they ever publish it!

but I find a lot that I can't just give anyone short explanations when they would more than suffice. Instead, I go into every minute detail that seems important to me but more than likely has minimal bearing on what I am trying to explain. Instead of a sentence, I end up with a rambling diatribe.
yup, that is me. Sometimes i can see that people want a concise answer but i cant do that, i cant summarize. It seems to me that most important things have to looked at from all sides and the causes, the consquences, the closely related, etc. I explain it all but i find that i go on and on. I never let anyone jump in and in fact, i interrupt everyone. I feel that when they make a point, i either have to support it and expand on it or i have to dispute it right away. I feel this way because if i let them finish then i may not remeber all their points and therefore i may allow them to either not be supported and expanded upon or proven to be wrong. I get angry and i respond badly to comments telling me to calm down. i think that they are being unfair to me and they must be too stupid to understand. This is a constant problem for me, it feels that most people i know just dont have the intellectual ability to keep up. I have been told by my family to shut up during family events because they say i am too loud and that all they hear is me screaming. But i get really upset inside thinking that they are singling me out and that i was not any louder than anyone else, i feel that they are just trying to stifle my thoughts because they are too dense to get it and fail to realize my genius. Egomaniac that lacks confidence and feels completely paranoid, that is me.

I think everyone does this though - ADD or not.

Best thing about having add though , is when someone does it to me i can get out of it easily because my friends know i have a short attention span and if im bored i zone out.

Absolutely!!! It's been commented on, i find it so difficult to give simple short answers in conversations, it's like i have to explain everything about it. Then of course any one thing i say can set me off on something else!
One of the main things i go on about i have a forum i go to where there are loads of people with the same obsession, so luckily i have an outlet for that.