But they need the context of the other 19 stories! Also some of them touch on niche things I find interesting that I now can't get out of my head so I have to tell them about it
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Are you my spouse? Because that's exactly the same explanation he gives me every time I tell him, that he opened too many side arcs in his story.
I lucked out in that my fiance finds me going off on 8 detours cute :3
But yeah, sometimes I go on such a side tangent, I end up talking about something for 6 hours and forget what the original point I was making was lol
My brain hasn't enough capacity anymore. He can be 30 mins in explaining the latest new cunning move in his malware and then drift off into a very detailed explanation of different script types and limitations on Windows and then he lost me :D
But at least I can always remember what we actually talked about and walk him back to the last part I was able to follow ^^
Ah, but now I want to know about your spouse's malware! Haha :3
Come to Germany, he'll gladly discuss everything with you :D
I probably do that every day that I interact with others, multiple times a day, but I'm not 100% sure, because I can't remember. ADHD & autism & a bunch of other neuro/cognitive issues is a hell of a mess of a mix. 🙃