Brain overload...spectrum... reduced to tears?

[shewolfmum]

So my partner and I just finished listening to a great doaceo podcast, the one in glucose. Really great. I was cleaning the kitchen. Just listening and getting into the flow of my stuff and, well, listening. My other half stopped podcast several times to talk around bits in it. Then wanted to talk and ask me questions about what I felt about so and so and talk more about what he thinks the problems are in a wider society etc etc. it went in for ages...sort of like i can't keep up or hear him and just want to be left with my thoughts but he talks and talks. Then my brain overloads...I cried! It's too much....am I abnormal? Should he just shut up and get out my space?

What's with the ellipses and spectrum conjunction?! Are you saying you're Autistic or that your suspect you might be?

I'm Autistic and get very overwhelmed sometimes when concentration on a task at hand is broken, however I wouldn't describe it as 'abnormal'.

I’m not autistic and my dh asks questions when I watch my true crime stuff and that annoys me to the point I turn it off and say look just google it ok. It’s annoying when they do it.

Ok just wanted perspective. I see him as highly functioning and wonder why my brain cannot almost keep up. Wondered if it was a typical thing people experience as part of being neuro diverse. It feels like I just don't like talking that much!

You were listening, you wanted to listen. He kept interrupting that. It's jarring and I'd struggle. I wouldn't be able to do that, I'd find it totally overwhelming. But I wouldn't make this about one of use being right and the other wrong. My brain likes to get soaked in something before talking about it, your partners brain clearly likes processing out loud as it goes. Neither is wrong you just have to come up with a compromise.

Have you read many books on how the autistic brain works? If not, I'd suggest doing that. By the sounds of it, you experienced sensory overwhelm. Were a yoy also cleaning/getting jobs done? If so that's a lot of noise and processing. I'd have to listen to a podcast through headphones if I was doing anything else as well.