Over Analysing Situations I Have No Way of Changing

Think on it another way: you're spending hours entertaining your analysis-thirsty brain and training your analytical ability - with situations that you won't be able to screw up, ever!

Naturally. No sense in suffering 0 or 1 times, I have to suffer twice or more!
- Jesus Christ. Endlessly more! Stop already. 🤪

I do this all the time too, and one day I decided just to look it up and we what it’s called. Rumination. Honestly for me, just reading about it, finding out that it’s super common, and giving it a name helped to stop it. When I find myself thinking about embarrassing things I did years ago or replaying and over analyzing things I just think “oh I’m ruminating again” and it usually goes away for a while. That along with other distraction techniques can help.
https://www.mind-diagnostics.org/blog/repetitive-thoughts-and-behaviors/what-is-rumination

I'm in the "over think every possible conceivable scenario and pre prepare responses to every social interaction only to be put into a social situation you didn't prepare for"
Yep. That's my cup of tea.... I don't go out much anymore.

I gave up doing this years ago when my grandpa passed away. Waste of energy tbh
- Not everyone can make that choice to just not think about it.... They're compelled to do it, usually due to some brain disorder.
  For me it's ADHD, others have different problems.
  
  I see. As someone with autism, I tend to observe things from a more analytical standpoint, which can be perceived as having an emotionless or black-and-white approach. But, this way of thinking actually helps me process information and evaluate situations more effectively, at least from my own experience.