Personally I do my goddamn best to make sure I understand what the other person is talking about. I'm sorry you have to deal with that with what sounds like fucking everyone in your life. That sounds truly awful, and I would probably just stop talking to people after trying so hard like that (hey, wait a second...).

One time I was talking with my therapist, and she complimented me on how I didn't talk over her or interrupt and actually listened to what she had to say which made me a bit confused, like, people actually do that? In a therapy session even? But thinking back, yeah, a lot of people I've been around, even those I considered friends and generally nice people, often didn't have the patience to hold a conversation past a certain point unless they were inebriated (and by then they were talking about nothing). So yeah, it's not you. That's just people, and I think especially recently with all the horrible things happening and being amplified by media networks; it can be too much so they just want to go home and forget. They don't want to give people enough time to express themselves, maybe they think it's dangerous, albeit unconsciously. I would think this is especially true in the states, in it's current state (hah).

Well, that's just my ramblings in response to yours. Light and beauty, fren.