I’m having a hard time talking with people who always want to finish my sentences with me/for me. Apparently this is a style of active listening where finishing someone’s sentence is supposed to show that you’re listening to what they are saying but this makes no sense to me.
If you’re speaking you’re not listening. If you’re speaking over someone, even if you’re saying the same thing they are, you’re still interrupting them.
Can someone explain the concept behind this style of active listening in a way a slightly autistic person can understand?
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It’s only meant to be a technique that works if you are exactly matching the person talkings sentiment. To be honest, emotionally intelligent people are few and far between. Most people are poor communicators, we talk over each other, we talk about ourselves too much, we don’t ask questions.
Techniques like ‘active listening’ were invented to try and mimic those who do this naturally.
The best way to ‘actively listen’ is to genuinely be interested and present in what someone’s saying, and allow affirmative responses ‘wow’, ‘yes’ , ‘interesting’ to come naturally. Not because you learned a technique.
I appreciate this is hard if you are on the autistic spectrum, but if it makes you feel better the vast majority of people fail to do this.
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