I still do that sometimes. I used to be really bad at it: I'd analyze what a person had said to me and then try to circumvent that by GUESSING what they might say next in order to end the conversation (I guess?). The result was confusion between both of us. One person even pointed this out to me that I was doing that. I'm not sure if this is a bipolar trait (that was before I was diagnosed) or part of being an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. I can see both- with the ACA part being that I would try to predict what my parents/dad would say or do before they did it so I could circumvent yelling or other abuse. At the moment, I think its a little of both. As I said, I wasn't diagnosed as bipolar when I began doing this as a child, but I probably was. Even with another relationship, the guy wanted to break up with me for my ACA tendencies/what were also part of undiagnosed bipolar? OT a bit, but I'm still not sure which is which. (I'd post on the ACA board here, but nobody posts there but me. )