Oh I still have this, I'm just better at powering through now. My siblings had no issues. Shout to be heard type of household, and I cant shout very well.

Didnt help that my mother has a meandering way of talking and thinking:

e.g. "tetris, I want you to do something for me, remember that curtain rail that I got from Argos before it closed down, we went there with Henry's mum, the one who hurt her shoulder playing tennis, and now Henry's going to join the army, hopefully not helping the IDF, which by the way did you see the news...."

I now stop her at the first tangent, and kindly state to her "mum, finish your sentence" where she then realises that she's holding me hostage and then gets to the point

My personal hell is wanting to read these super long replies on post in this community, to better understand my adhd, but I can't bring myself to finish reading them. Something else always snags my attention.

It's torture for everyone involved. I had a speech impediment growing up, and getting interrupted became my biggest "immediately lose my cool" button.

So naturally my wife and kid have ADHD. Go figure lmao. We're all working on it.

then by the time they do i've used up my quota of social interaction for the day

Eight times worse for me is waiting for others to take their turn at a board game. Recently played Wyrmspan (Wingspan but with dragons). Nobody was even thinking about what they were doing next until their turn and somebody's spouse wanted to leave and kept asking if we were almost done. We only got to play 3 out of the 4 rounds.

I've actually learned to recognize when people expect me to finish a sentence for them and then just wait for them to finish it themselves.

Them: "Hi, I'm looking for a Stephen King book, and I was wondering if you could..."

Me: "..."

Them: "..." [meaningful look]

Me: "..." [blank questioning stare]

Them: "...help me find it?"

Me: "Oh, of course! It's right this way."

It's a fun little game to play with conversational expectations.

The worst is when people clearly don't know how to order the information being presented.

Yes… yes it is.

True, but it's also frustrating in reverse when you can't get anything out in a timely manner and the other party gets upset at you.

I've just started doing the circle finger thing Charlie does in the Dennis Reynolds looks like a sex offender episode.

It's probably considered rude but it works

For real, for real.