Perhaps nothing is as annoying to people as being interrupted when they are talking. Equally irritating, if not more so, is when others talk over us while we are speaking. We can ignore this rudeness when it occurs randomly, but we face a different challenge when we work or live with a chronic interrupter.
I continue to work very hard to not be a chronic interrupter. Focusing on active listening helps a lot. I will force myself to write down a response or question and sit on it for several minutes before I bring up (if at all). It still requires a lot of mental effort on my part. But being more disciplined at this has definitely paid off. Side Note: Nobody ever seems to empathize with the Chronic Interrupter and how utterly painful and difficult it is to sit through people conversing at 'normal' speed when our brains are processing the conversation at 1.5X or 2X speed. I find myself interrupting most of the time because I've already figured out what the other person is eventually going to say and I lose patience in waiting for them to get to their point. I am patiently waiting for the neurolink so we can bypass words and just directly exchange thoughts in real-time :)
I continue to work very hard to not be a chronic interrupter. Focusing on active listening helps a lot. I will force myself to write down a response or question and sit on it for several minutes before I bring up (if at all). It still requires a lot of mental effort on my part. But being more disciplined at this has definitely paid off. Side Note: Nobody ever seems to empathize with the Chronic Interrupter and how utterly painful and difficult it is to sit through people conversing at 'normal' speed when our brains are processing the conversation at 1.5X or 2X speed. I find myself interrupting most of the time because I've already figured out what the other person is eventually going to say and I lose patience in waiting for them to get to their point. I am patiently waiting for the neurolink so we can bypass words and just directly exchange thoughts in real-time :)