Practicing conversations

I try to practice, I spend a lot of my day working alone so I am able to talk to myself. If it’s my nemesis the telephone then I try to make notes. I had a phone call last week to let me know the sale of something had fallen through. I answered the call as my wife recognised the number. My answer was ‘that’s brilliant, bye’. The person must of thought that I was a complete numpty. It was my brain telling me to get rid of the call asap. I find I spend  most of a call saying sorry, I can never get when I should talk. How do NT people do it? I can’t see the person, how are you supposed to know when it’s your turn?

I try to practice, I spend a lot of my day working alone so I am able to talk to myself. If it’s my nemesis the telephone then I try to make notes. I had a phone call last week to let me know the sale of something had fallen through. I answered the call as my wife recognised the number. My answer was ‘that’s brilliant, bye’. The person must of thought that I was a complete numpty. It was my brain telling me to get rid of the call asap. I find I spend  most of a call saying sorry, I can never get when I should talk. How do NT people do it? I can’t see the person, how are you supposed to know when it’s your turn?

Yeah the telephone is the worst - I definitely write down a script to read for that every time. I never answer random calls - leave a message if its urgent then I can get back to you with my notes of what I may need to say.  And now all my doctors appointments have been over the phone since the pandemic and its SO DIFFICULT to express what I actually need when my brain goes into panicked autopilot to say whatever will make the phonecall end the quickest.