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?

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.

So difficult with doctors call as the wait gives time to get worked up and forget we will say. Usually a longer wait than an appointment time.

So difficult with doctors call as the wait gives time to get worked up and forget we will say. Usually a longer wait than an appointment time.