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I have neither autism nor ADHD afaik and I tend to over share quite often. At work or with people I don't know too much. Often I catch myself while doing it but then I think, I'm having fun, they don't seem to mind, who cares.
It's not exclusive to autism and ADHD. It can be due to various things (PTSD is another one) and it can be detrimental to people so if you have the "who cares" kind of over sharing then it's likely not quite the same thing - or you have some cool people in your life lol.
Pretty much where I’m at.
Modern social isolationism is going to keep young men unruly and dangerous and grown people too quiet to be interesting. It’s all bad
I am autistic, and TBH recently Lemmy is my go-to place to over-share.
IRL I'll say some mild off-hand comment and the person I'm talking to will start looking at me differently, in a bad way.
eg. Last time I remember this happening was talking about being pulled over by the police because the car I was driving belonged to someone who was in jail at the time, and it pinged their number plate reader.