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Sometimes I think speaking English isn't my first language. I think I prefer pictures.
Sometimes it feels like someone else has taken control of my mouth and it's not my words being spoken, my brain knows what order they should come out in, but they get jumbled up on the way to and out of my mouth.
What's worse is people then get offended, won't accept that offence wasn't my intention and give me a mouthful and when I tell them if I wanted to be offensive I'd have said ...., it makes it even worse. Sometimes I wonder why I bother saying anything to anyone.
Haha I like how you describe that
I am articulate, but I still manage to get my mucking furds wuddled and I have terrible foot in mouth disease, even worse I try and get the first foot out of my mouth with the second foot.
Sometimes I think people deliberately take things the wrong way, I know everyone has days when they're more sensitive than others, but.....
Excellent! Thank you for making me smile B.
You are welcome 
Your name is dangerous for a cheese addict like me
I think he was instigating it a lot with them behind the scenes though and I just never got to find out properly
Me too.
Excellent! Thank you for making me smile B.
kiwipip We have a beautiful novel about concise communication — School at the Frontier by Géza Ottlik, 1959. The teenage characters understand each other using just tiny sounds like ‘brr’ and ‘hrr’ and they use this communication also during their adulthood! Let me check for the part I was thinking of by your ‘A’.
B?
Yes?
Yeah, that must have hurt, especially from someone who should have been supportive. Then it can be crushing. It's a big deal to work through that.
It's very confusing when people have unexpected negative reactions, or reactions you can't quite read or understand.
On work platforms I use emojis a lot to try convey a light hearted tone in the hope of a positive reaction.
Here it helps a bit as everyone is just trying their best and getting it wrong sometimes. You aren't on your own with it.
I think it’s because when I used to write to my ex and write things happy he would still somehow shout at me over it so just stopped trusting what I was sharing
It's so tough isn't it. I am going to try work on having more courage.
Yeah I used to end up doing this with some of our friends in the group chat and then thought ooo nooo they won’t want to know about that or they might take that the wrong way so end up deleting them. And then I used to get told off about it quite badly…. Which made my anxiety about it a lot worse. But I thought all of my friends know what I’m like with wording things they know it’s because I don’t always articulate it properly and worry
Yes, this is me.
