Foot in Mouth Syndrome

Happens to me all the time!

Eventually, everyone gets a story of my guinea pigs ;)

- Serenity

Start off with the basics - weather, Tiger Woods' confession, some class you have (briefly!), Winter Olympics, the nice outfit she's wearing (even if it isn't all that).

As noted, if they start talking, let them.
If you aren't talking that much, eventually they'll ask you questions. Answer them, but pretty briefly. If they want to know more, they'll ask more questions. If not, no more questions - and you'll be glad you stopped!

It's not impossible to learn this stuff, it really isn't.

College can be a good place because you have so many classmates and people in the library and bookstore and so on.
But of course many of the kids are immature.

I wouldn't let relatively meaningless social issues get in the way of your schooling (I will add that you being a girl, it's more likely that "I'm not going back" is a way of venting frustration and not necessarily literal. Though most Aspies are pretty literal. Hmm.)

It may not be impossible to learn these things, but it can be difficult sometimes. I've been doing a lot of work lately to reign in my verbose tendencies with people, only to have my efforts completely blown out of the water with a friend I've been hanging around with recently. The more we socialize, the more I ramble, and I've noticed he makes no effort in trying to shut me up, he just lets me continue unabated. He's like a co-enabler or something, LOL. But at least I'm conscious of what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. That does make a difference I think.

At least i come and read this and know im not the only one that does this. It makes me feel better.

Totally great advice. I need to control myself!!

Yea im pretty sure I'll never go back. Unless for online classes. That I can handle.

Itd also be good if I worked on how I word things. I tend to offend people allot because I word stuff wrong. whoops!!! lol

Serenity how many guinea pigs do you have? I think guinea pigs make some cool sounds.

I have two guinea pigs - Oreo (about a two and a half) and Benny (three months and some short of two years). Oreo isn't much of a talker (he will, but only on occasion and only when it really means something!). Oreo tends to communicate more by stares and getting Benny to talk for him. This really confuses things because Oreo won't tell me when his water bottle has flooded his cage - instead, Benny will bang on his bars and I'll spend all day trying to figure out what Benny wants when, in actuality, Benny is just trying to tell me that Oreo's cage is flooded!

Benny is only quiet when he's asleep and even then he's been known to mutter in his sleep lol He's REALLY loud - if he's bored, hungry, cranky, tired, or whatever, he lets me know. He's a great whiner, even better at giving his opinion (I can't watch TV with him because he won't shut up - and, if I try to tell him anything, he'll kick or nip me in the mouth!), and has this really cute waking up sounds (it's like he's trying to wheek, but half asleep). He likes to bang on the bars of his cage, too - especially when he wants something. So far, I've figured out that the louder he bangs on his cage, it means he's hungry. Quick and fast means he wants hay. Short, quiet little bursts means he's trying to get Oreo's attention and quiet little bangs means he's talking to Oreo (or something - because he'll also "talk" to him without banging on the bars). We're still working on the concept that it's not okay to have food in one's mouth while trying to bang on the bars ...

- Serenity

"We're still working on the concept that it's not okay to have food in one's mouth while trying to bang on the bars ... "
ROFLMAO

Social stories are small stories which help people to learn lessons, prepare ahead or otherwise retain information.

I suggest you write a small social story and put it on an index card. Keep it in your pocket, and try to read it several times each day. Over time this will help you to be aware of the problem and adhere to the solution.

It's interesting that "Foot in Mouth Syndrome" is what it is called. Princess Anne once labelled her father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, as having that very syndrome due to his habit of bemoaning every social issue from guns to housewives and directly or indirectly insulting almost every nation bar the Swiss.
(He's something of an anti-hero in Great Britain for these very reasons.)

HIJACK!!! The Swiss are now adding soy to their chocolate, making it dangerous for those with soy allergies to eat. Sadly, they still advertise it as being a hundred year old formula, which has to be an outright lie, as there is no way they were putting soy in their chocolates in the early 1900's.