i don't ask "what about you?"

time to practice conversing again! i miss my meds.
[Video Description and Transcript: A white genderfluid person sets down the camera and stands away from it, talking directly to the camera for 1 minute and 20 seconds. There are open captions above the person's head. Dialogue begins, "I just realized that, in conversation, I feel so ingenuine asking somebody like, oh what about you? or, oh and you? and it's not because i don't care or don't wanna know, because i do. but. the people that i talk to on a regular basis, and they would probably say this is due to their AuDHD, because i know i say the same, they're used to, like, i share my part and then they share their part. they share their side, their experiences. we're not making it about ourselves, we're like saying, oh i relate. here's my side now. you know. and so i'm not... when people don't talk like that, i'm not used to that. so... and i also feel bad asking these questions. because. what if they don't want, want to be asked? i, i assume because my friends, if they wanna share something, they're gonna share something. and if they don't wanna share something, they're not gonna share it. and then it's awkward if i ask, and cause not everybody's comfortable saying like, oh i'm not comfortable talking about that. you know. so it's like partially out of respect, and also because i'm not used to people talking like that. i'm not used to like people needing probing questions and, like, prompting in a conversation. i'm used to just the bouncing back and forth. i've been sitting here thinking like, is something wrong with me? why do i feel so guilty asking, what about you? it's because i'm not used to it. i'm used to people interjecting." End video.]
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