• hypnicjerk@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          it depends on the dump. are you just talking about contextless minutiae or are you establishing a frame of reference and creating (not explaining) a narrative?

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        2 months ago

        Bringing up an interest you have is small talk. Dumping is a red flag

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            2 months ago

            You weren’t talking about people speaking passionately, you’re talking about verbally dumping on people

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              2 months ago

              Erika Sanborne, autistic educator and researcher, describes it as “enthusiastically communicating a large quantity of words, with an inordinate amount of detail, about one super interesting category of information, all at once, interpersonally.” Info dumping is often called a love language because it’s a way for autistic individuals to express what they are passionate about with those they care about most.

              https://autismawarenesscentre.com/what-is-autistic-info-dumping/

              Come again?

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                My wife and I call them unskippable cutscenes and we share ours with each other all the time. Sure we don’t always understand the details, but we do understand the passion we both have for the cutscenes we start and it’s adorable to watch as the sole audience member.

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      Everybody has issues they need to work on, if you can talk openly about those “red flagish” issues, maybe its not that hard to be around you…