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Some autistic people find making phone calls extremely stressful and unpleasant and will avoid them at all costs.

Please don’t try and force your communication preferences on others.

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#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD @actuallyautistic

@autism101 @actuallyautistic i use to hâte calling people.
But got sort of used to it, cause i have to admit, its much more efficient that emailing.

@CedC @autism101 @actuallyautistic I feel like it was less awkward with back in the day with landlines. Less time delay. Anything over the internet is the worst, because you start talking, and don't realize the other person started talking already but it took like 2 or 3 seconds to get to you, so it's this constant back and forth interrupting each other, "I feel li—sorry, go on..."

I've never really liked it either way though, with the exception of a few choice people.

@gordoooo_z @CedC @autism101 @actuallyautistic

It absolutely was easier with landlines. I am old enough to remember before there were answering machines (fuck them sideways) or any other tech enhancements to the basic phone.

With the basic phone, if you have summoned up the energy to call them, and they don't answer, there's no record. If they call you, and you don't answer, there's no record. Although my mother would have complained... my hatred for phones is deep and undying.

Nick 🫣

@regordane Answering machines -right😂 I'm so old there was a thing called party lines. Cheap ass phone companies utilized multiparty lines to connect many homes to the same telephone line at a time, -your neighbor's could pick up the phone and listen to your calls😵‍💫in.gordoooo_z@hachyderm.io @CedC @autism101 @actuallyautistic