to ask for your input/experiences re: 'intense' people?

[latenightworker]

Hello, my name is latenightworker and I am intense.

I don't know why, and I don't know how to stop.

I overshare. I make myself look silly, I talk myself up and sometimes lie. I act like I'm 'cooler' than I am.

I have the feeling that I wear people out sometimes. I certainly make some people uncomfortable.

Do you know anyone like this? What would you suggest to them?

What are some of the things people have overshared with you or ways that they've been intense?

(I've just read this over and I realise that I sound like a journalist, ha! I am not. I recently realised via reading some other MN threads that I am quite intense. Not honest, not 'real', not 'just my personality'. I am really putting people off by my behaviour, but I don't really know how it looks from the outside. Just that a lot of people start off liking me and then drop me like a hot potato. And needless to say, I don't really like that much.)

That list has me wondering. And ? to hyperlexia. In my family it's now 4 generations of girls being readers on entry to school. I've always thought it was a because we value it and do lots of reading. That's actually making me wonder. I just thought we find language easy.
But. We're also not raised to be nor are bothered about 'typical' gender roles to a great extent (we're not glamorous and all about nice feeling comfortable but nice clothes). There's something about that on the list. But that's weird to me. Gender identity and your relative conformity isn't surely only affected by the 'OS' in your brain? I was raised to read, wear comfy clothes, read, detest the feel of makeup, read (because i never got used to it), avoid high heels, read, shop with my fingers to the fabric, read all by a mum with poor social skills and no close friends. So upbringing cannot make me one thing but then? Who knows.