I think there’s some unexplored discourse around the amount of effort it can sometimes take to put emotion into speech. Sometimes when I’m around other very trusted ND people I’ll give up trying to fit tone/volume/etc to my words and just say the flat meaning of a thing.

Eg, instead of reading the room and calculating the energy levels and potential headspaces of everyone else in the room and how they might respond to the idea of getting food together, I’ll just blurt out “need eat”.

It’s awkward wording but it gets the idea across, and it’s so much easier for me than doing all of the extra emotional processing and then synthesizing it all into a sentence.

This isn’t all the time ofc, I’m usually (lol this thread) pretty verbose. But when I get in those moods (eg exhausted or really high) remembering that I can just spit out adjectives and nouns (“feet cold”, “twitter bad”, “fidget?”) and people will understand me is a huge relief.

If you’re able to control when you can do this like I can, don’t try it around random NTs lol