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Do you have interesting ways to communicate with others?

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Some time ago I was told about Parallel Play where children play next to each other, each in their own activity.

This was quite interesting for me, and how we did things with my partner -before she broke up with me. For example, she would paint and I would program. The only difference being that we were physically quite close to each other.

I did try to reading books together with relatives, but we have different preferences and speeds (I am very slow and focus on details) and it didn't work.

This has been the most recurrent theme of my psychology sessions -and still unsolved: find ways to communicate. And some candidates were: look at what they like that does not seem too tiring, reduce the amount of time to 5-10', try simply sharing something funny, look for anything in common, etc. etc.

[Persistent Though I couldn't avoid: I'd put anything in place of a phone or video call.] 

  • Do you have any ways in which you interact friends or relatives that feels good to you, and is not so common (as the examples I gave just above) ?
  • in reply to Lotus

    Wow that's such a great song and an interesting fact Blush thanks for sharing it. I'm half tempted to use my own language and write some songs now.

  • I enjoy creative writing and have a friend who does too. We engaged in writing challenges of some sort from time to time, sharing our results on a shared document and writing together on there. Sometimes we just showed each other stuff we’d been working on. We haven’t been doing anything like this for quite some time now (both of us being quite busy), but whenever we speak or text, we still follow this scheme of just telling each other about interests and projects. Sometimes this leads to very interesting conversations and if not, we at least got to enjoy info dumping on each other for a while.

  • in reply to Maisie

    You just reminded me of a singer who made up her own language to sing in - Elizabeth Fraser from Cocteau Twins. Here's a song from their 1986 album Victorialand:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iIZ8l4q12Qg&pp=ygUaY29jdGVhdSB0d2lucyBmbHVmZnkgdHVmdHM%3D

  • I don't really have any interesting ways I communicate with others. When I was little I made up my own language but it was a bit useless as only I understood it and I lacked the social skills to explain it to anybody else Rolling eyes genius. Not.

    Really my way of interacting is pretty much what I'm doing now digitally on my phone or laptop. Sometimes I will write on paper to my family. I'll talk occasionally but usually only yes and no responses if I'm asked a question. 

    I prefer typing and writing to actually speaking. I don't think it's an interesting way of communicating but I do find it very useful. If this technology wasn't around communication would much harder.

  • I don't think I have any interesting ways to communicate. I do much better through messaging than I do in person though, that's for sure. And I do much better communicating about things I want to communicate about and not small talk.

    However, I've had a couple of friends in my life over the years who have had some kind of mind reading capability which has fascinated me. I must communicate a lot with my face and body language that I'm completely unaware of. I remember being in a shop with a friend and being indecisive about what I wanted. And more than once she stated what I was thinking, yet I hadn't uttered a word.