I don’t stutter or fuck up my speech over a text.

cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/30077456

Stolen from Mastodon.

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I still cant get any of my friends to realize that talking on the phone is LITERAL FUCKING HELL.

I can’t hear you cause I’m deaf, I can’t understand you cause I can’t see you, and I don’t know how to respond socially cause your not right in front of me. Also, just because I have a phone absolutely does not mean you get to hijack my time whenever you want, only I get to do that.

If you want something, just text. I’ll respond (maybe) when I can actually think of a response.

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I have to make about 5 - 7 phone calls for important shit in my life. I am actively suffering for not having made these calls. It’s getting worse.

All I can do is hope that I will wake up one day and I’ll feel okay enough to make one of the phone calls. It happens every once in a while, I swear.

Just have to wait…

They’re the freaking worst and I wish I could hire an assistant to make calls for me.

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I typically avoid it like the plague. Texts are so much more elegant

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Yeah, given the choice, I’d rather avoid the phone all together. Unless it’s close friends/family, I have to script what I’m going to say to get through it. I don’t have the same reaction to video calls, interesting enough…

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I used to. It was curable via exposure for me. Had to do it at work a lot and just got used to it.

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