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[quote=Anonymous]My mom is like this. Interestingly, my husband is one of the few people in the family who does really well around her and even sticks up for her when somebody expresses their annoyance with her. She's worse around people she's just met, people she isn't around very often, or when she's the fish out of water. She prattles on and on, and interrupts people to ask sometimes very weird questions, or tell a really odd anecdote. The looks she gets sometimes. I honestly don't think she realizes how annoying it is. I mean, there are times I feel like she's worked herself up into frenetic energy with her prattle and questions. And she can't follow the conversation because she's busy interrupting the person next to her; so then she butts in to the main convo saying something totally irrelevant.

But actually, I notice that a lot of people seem to really like her. I could see how she can be good at bringing people out of their shells or bringing up topics of conversation during a lull. Because sometimes she's pretty genuine and normal (just so word vomity).

So I think it's a combo of genuine interest in others; and social anxiety (oddly, she keeps an extremely busy social and volunteer-work calendar, so she's not afraid to be around people). Like a PP said, she's anxious but doesn't seem to know it.

I have social anxiety which causes me to be really shy and clam up, likely because my mom always did all the talking. If somebody asked ME how school was going, my MOM would butt right in and answer, etc. [/quote]

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