Friends and family know this about me (more or less), so they treat it as what it is: an attempt to collaborate to reach a shared understanding.
With strangers and acquaintances, I know this can be irritating so I curb it at the expense of possibly zoning out.
I mention all this to offset the following assumption:
> A lot of people don't have the patience to unspool a thought or the instinct to ask a clarifying question instead of plowing ahead with their mistaken assumption.
It's not for a lack of patience or instinct or intelligence or <insert virtue or character trait of choice here>. Some of us find it genuinely hard to keep lots of context in working memory (due to a working memory deficit), without taking an active part in whatever demands it. And it's not for lack of trying.