Interesting PoV! Thanks for sharing :) There are different kinds of interrupters 1 - people who want to let you know they know what you're about to say - migh

Interesting PoV! Thanks for sharing :) There are different kinds of interrupters 1 - people who want to let you know they know what you're about to say - might save everyone time. 2 - people who aren't interested in what's being said and want to say what they want to say. 3 - people who know better than the person who's talking. 4 - a tangent/aside (when I tangent interrupt I always try when I'm done to ask the person I interrupted to continue). 5 - rephrasing things ("do you mean this?"), asking for confirmation that stuff was understood. If I feel someone's monologuing excessively and losing me because of it (and being bad enough at reading body language to not realise it), I tend to do this (which can turn into a kind of interrogation scenario where I lead by questions, which isn't great, but it's better than having my eyes glaze). 5b - Asking for information about things I don't understand. On the other side I know some people can speak very slowly, with lots of filler words - it's like they're monopolising the air with...'hmmmm' 'uuuh'...basically nothing, and that can be as annoying as being interrupted. And then you have giant wind-bags. Conversational dynamics can be tricky things. I don't want anyone getting bummed out if I'm talking to them, and I don't want to lose them. Sometimes my conversation partner isn't so finely attuned to these things so I have to try steer things, and I'm sure people do that with me sometimes as well.