So a typical weekday night: I'm on the couch on my laptop in our teeny apartment partly doing schoolwork/partly applying for jobs/partly watching something dumb like "Rock of Love" (heh heh)/partly randomly searching the internet for new interesting info.
My husband: across the room at the desk on the regular computer

If I could time myself I would bet that about every 3 to 5 minutes for hours, I feel the need to let my husband know whatever random thoughts are going on in my head. Maybe i've decided from watching and analyzing "rock of love" that Heather had daddy issues and that is why she dresses like a ####, and Brett Michaels should be happy ANY girl wants him. Maybe i've decided that I MUST work for a pharma company and go on to talk about what my plan is to achieve that based on looking at job postings. Maybe i've decided that my teammate from a school project is an idiot because he still hasn't emailed me and we have something due in 2 days. Maybe I think a "rant" on Craigslist is hilarious and I just HAVE to read it to him.

My poor husband is a quiet guy so he just listens (or does a pretty good job pretending!). I only do this with people I am completely comfortable around (like my mom & sis but they do it too!) Please tell me other people have this problem so I don't feel like i'm totally bonkers.

Oh, that's easy. We are so full of brilliant insight that we simply must share with others in order to enlighten them!

Unfortunately, my husband only likes to be limitedly enlightened. I'm no longer allowed to watch Bill Maher with him, even if there is a pause/rewind/ff option. :(
But that's okay. Because I can't STAND when he does it to me. ;)

Do the same to close people. Probably because its interesting to me and for some reason that means its going to be interesting to everyone, which it usually isnt.

I'm so glad I am not the only one! Men don't get it. ever.

ADHD? Why do I feel the need to share every random thought and insight?

Because you're generous?

I do the same exact thing. To the girls I date once i get close to them then this freaks them out. I get the.... "you analyze things too much lecture" then our relationships crumbles from there. I also do that to my best friends but they thing my thoughts and ideas are hilarious.

i have the same problem your not allone

We'll probably forget the thoughts if we don't blurt them out NOW. Of course, we could write them down but that would take too long and we'd be on to the next thought already.

As for whether our thoughts are brilliant, funny, etc., we can be "impulsive" remember?! They're not always brilliant, funny, etc. . . . . except for most of the times! :rolleyes:

Wow the OP is beautiful.

Edit: Oh yeah, after reading your actual post, I do this sometimes too.

Naturechick80: What in nature will make your hair lay as perfectly as in your OP?! :confused:

Or maybe it has to do with the 80chick thing. :cool:

i do the same with my husband. i watch alot of discovery and history channel and am always going in to tell him about some random fact i just learned.

My most recent one was " did you know it takes a thousand pounds of pressure to break a thigh bone "? ( Discovery Channel ).

He's used to these random statements, and i feel like i get to share something new.

Often talks excessively???

naturechick~

I laughed until I cried when I read your post. Not because I am unsympathetic but because that is almost EXACTLY what I did last night. Right down to looking at jobs on the computer and watching Rock of Love! I just can't pull myself away from that show!

(on a side note: do you think Brett is bald? he always has that bandana on....even when he was alseep when the girl came in to give him breakfast..it is never out of place)

The only difference was that I was commenting on how aggravating his mother was that day and trying to tell him why he felt so depressed.

Unfortunately, I do this to everyone...not just people I am comfortable with!! :)

It seems like a lot of do this to our husbands. Mine wishes I won't chit chat all the time, but I just of this need to tell him everything. It's really bad when I am in an interview and things slip out, stupid impulse control, wish I had more of it. But it is better since being on the meds.

Do the same to close people. Probably because its interesting to me and for some reason that means its going to be interesting to everyone, which it usually isnt.


Yeah well said. I do the exact same thing and I just can't help myself around some of my friends that I trust.

I manage to contain myself around people I don't know too well because they just think I'm crazy with all the random blabbering about many different subjects.

Naturechick80: What in nature will make your hair lay as perfectly as in your OP?! :confused:

Or maybe it has to do with the 80chick thing. :cool:

Ha ha. My 17 year old sister wantd me to have "anime-hair", so I let her experiment on me with all of her mysterious hair goops.

(on a side note: do you think Brett is bald? he always has that bandana on....even when he was alseep when the girl came in to give him breakfast..it is never out of place)


Wow, I hadn't thought about the bald thing. That's probably it though! His man-eyeliner irritates me the most. I'm still not sure why I always watch that show...:confused:

I never noticed the eyeliner..I can't get past the hair! You asses the hair/headband thing and I'll check the eyeliner! Deal?

hmmm. I share just about NONE of my random thoughts, unless I'm writing, when I often could use an editor. I don't think the thought-sharing is an ADD thing. I think it's just a thing. My husband and son and daughter share ALLLLLLL of their random thoughts, it seems, and I'm the one with ADD.

We need to share every thought and/or random feeling because we have insatiable desire to find another that may happen to feel the same way. We need to let everyone know our thoughts and feelings so we ensure we're "all on the same page". We wear our hearts on our sleeves and seem to look at another for any sight of confirmation of our feelings.

I do this a lot too.

In the end, I expect too much and am often dissapointed.

Then I start over again - the cycle never ends.

I do that too, but I'm not sure if it has anything to do with my ADD. I love people, I honestly do, but most of the time I have trouble knowing what to say. So I'll just blurt out whatever's on my mind.

I also do it for praise and to feel intellegent. I spent my whole life up until my mid teens feeling like I was the dumbest, most unaccomplished person in the whole world, and it wasn't until I was about 15 or 16 that I finally realized I was smart. Now I want the whole world to know--I'm here, I have thoughts, I'm intellegent!

Not that what I blurt out makes sense all the time, but at least it gets me attention, eh?

I guess I have to be the odd MAN out here and admitt that I am usually the one sharing all of the details of my life and whatever random thoughts are going on in my head. I know I have gone to far when my wife gets that glazed look in her eyes.

I find being married to someone who is hard of hearing has its advantages sometimes.

when i get an idea that I think is great i really really have the need to share it with some one any one. I think mabe thats so if some one besides me knows about it it wont get lost.