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@gangsterkathryn
@nuraknu
@Shinkicker? Interested in both your sense of being interrupted and your own proclivities.
I saw this thread earlier and was going to come back to it when I had a few moments,
Growing up, I really struggled with keeping myself from interrupting others when they spoke to interject with my own input. It is not that I intended to be rude, it's that I wanted to share how I could relate and show I was actively listening. Since I grew up speaking this way, I continued to do so when I started having more adult-adjacent conversations as an older kid. People told me I was incredibly rude and I should learn better manners. I quickly adjusted to reign myself in outside of my family and close friendships. One of the few times since that I really interrupted someone was in September. I was defending myself after my former boss decided to berate and belittle me after the execution of a project did not go smoothly. He previously stated I did not need to be involved in the project because I had "too much else to do", but when it came time for the execution, suddenly it was entirely on my shoulders and the people that actually worked on it were not the one's responsible - something that was never conveyed to me. When I interrupted his screaming fit, I was told to "shut up". This was the first time in my career that someone other than a customer had spoken to me in such an unprofessional manner, and it was the first time that I had gotten his fucknut wrath, usually reserved for useless employees and his sister. I wound up walking out two weeks later because of that interaction, the tension since, and another incident that was "the last straw." (So glad I stopped working 75 hour, seven day work weeks for that buffoon.)
But, I actually recently learned about cooperative overlapping.
Here is a great article about the linguistics behind it. It is heavily prevalent within the Jewish community. It was so enlightening (and comforting) to learn that there is a reason for the way I interact in conversations, rather than just that I am a rude individual. I don't really have to interact with many people outside of my family and the four employees at my new job (two are literally my family and there are only two others, plus I work remotely in a different state), but I do feel more at ease with my conversational habits.
I know I wrote this more professionally than I would normally, but I am practicing for all the papers I have to write this semester because I haven't written any in ages.
But to answer the question, I do interrupt when I am speaking, depending upon the other party/parties in the conversation. I fucking hate, with a passion, though, when my mother interrupts me to interject her stupid fucking suggestions of what I "should" do, especially when if she would let me finish, she would hear I AM ALREADY FUCKING DOING EXACTLY THAT. Sorry, I am really annoyed with her so I am being a cunt.