if I can't talk about myself or talk about something that I can completely relate to, I have trouble listening. I feel like that's how I get bored of people. If you need me to be there for you and complain for hours about it, I'm all ears. But if you go on about something I could give a crap about i'm hearing "blah blah blah". I feel really bad that I can't do this and I bet it really turns off the other person as well.

I hate that I'm that way too, but it's the truth. I try, but sometimes it does my head in to hear of yet another tale of the "abscessed tooth...".

Talking to my mother in law is nearly suicide. She has a natural ability to talk incessantly about NOTHING.

I try, I really try. Because usually they are there for me, and it isn't always the hottest topics. But, sometimes, I'm outwardly glazing over, and saying "uh huh" a few too many times, when inside, I'm imagining what it would be like to just out of the blue, shove a pencil up their nose. Or, just reach out and smack them on the back of the head. If I had a dime for every time I had to resist the urge to slap someone on the back of the head...... :rolleyes:

I just had a house guest here, she speaks incredibly softly and at a strange pitch. but talks constantly, and asks challenging questions...it was like torture.

she is hard to hear, not talking about anything interesting (mostly about her sex life and about her friends, who I have never ad will never meet!) and yet demanded constant attention.

I feel like someone put my head through a cheese grater. it was awful. I kept saying "what?" and shed repeat herself AT THE SAME VOLUME AND PACE. so I'd have to say "what" about five times, and then, while still irritated by this, try to listen to her tell me about how adventurous some total stranger is because they watched a gay porno...I've been in the extreme SM scene off and on for years...to me, with my history and past, her stories were really beginner, boring stuff...like white people using ebonics...it was so bad

ugh.


short form; yes, I know how this feels.

oh, and in order to hear her at all, I'd have to lean in really close, and I HATE close talking. hate it.

sorry I think I should make a new thread! this is just scratching the surface of the angst she caused.

reesah, your house guest sounds torturous, argh i understand how you must feel...dont know how anyone could put up with listening to that!

i get bored of people as well, talking about boring crap. I love interesting topics tho and sometimes dominate the conversation...

I have the problem too. I tend to form a response then I tend to try to keep a hold of my thought then I lose what the other person is trying to say to me.
I know a girl when we have a conversation that she can't listen to what I am saying because she is always talking about her own problems.It gets sort of irritating but I know she has AD/HD too so I don't get to annoyed with her. :)