As an Aspie adult, a highly verbal one at that, can I just say that when I am agitated or upset, being asked to verbalise what I'm feeling is often counter-productive. High emotion or frustration causes what is in essence a traffic jam between brain and mouth. I literally can't force the words out.
This. It's one reason why I'm thankful all the psychologists I've worked with don't mind me waiting to speak or babbling because I can't figure out how to verbalize things. I'm not always aware of why I feel the way I do, so it helps in the long term, but I can't make it go faster, so it's kind of bad in the short term.
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Date: 2011-05-28 02:30 pm (UTC)This. It's one reason why I'm thankful all the psychologists I've worked with don't mind me waiting to speak or babbling because I can't figure out how to verbalize things. I'm not always aware of why I feel the way I do, so it helps in the long term, but I can't make it go faster, so it's kind of bad in the short term.