Am I going doolally?

I've never seen 'whataboutery' here or anywhere else

I'm always connecting something my family has said to something else in my head then coming out with an apparently unrelated comment. If challenged I explain my train of thought. This usually prompts baffled silence or mild hysteria. Must learn to keep my tangential thoughts to myself. But where's the fun in that?

Tell them your replies are relevant - to you! ?

What a lovely word, rose, thank you. I think I shall steal use it.
As Oscar Wilde put it, "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken". Forget about changing just because it annoys other people. also what annoys them might be their own problem!

I think sometimes going off tangent gives context to an answer or indicates your level of experience.

I've never heard that buzzword rose , I'm obviously not on those threads .....thank goodness !

They sound very stuffy - ignore and continue to be a Rambling Rose.

Yes, don't go on forums...there are some posters (here) using the buzzword of 'whataboutery' at every opportunity.Or if you do, be prepared for rebukes, mild or otherwise.I think that people who think laterally have interesting minds. so don't change just to please others.
Of course, if you were answering a question ( say) on how best to prune a photinia, and you then gave a rambling discourse on how late the postman arrives these days, that would be different.