For some reason my friend always had an issue with fast talking. Somehow he could take constructive criticism but any related to social skill espically fast talk was a line crossed for him.
Like everyone his parents, to friends, to teachers and complete random strangers told him he talked too fast and had to slow down.
He always got angry and defensive and said well maybe you’re all too old so ears can keep up. Or his social skills were so good it was hard to keep up with him.
His parents said they were just trying to help him and werent attacking him. But he only stopped talking fast around entering college.
However he doesn’t really talk slow he has to force himself to unnaturally control his speech. Like he knows he will talk so fast if he gets excited or emotional so he has to forcibly control his speech and emotions and talk like depressed robot.
Otherwise he’s so scared that if he does he will get panic attack if told that espically in front of his parent.
I know he would self punish like hit himself or bite himself if told that. He also be extremely mortified and wouldn’t show his face ever if that meant confronting the same people who told him to talk slow.
But now she’s such an arrogant person because he thinks that he talks so slow now and he usually mocks, insult and demean people now by saying please talk slower but in a very pretentious way to belittle others and their intelligence.
So what’s likely cause all of this. Is it genetic or is he on the spectrum? Is that why he was so defensive because he knew his talking skills were garbage so couldn’t admit to it least admit he was the problem?