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Phone calls dread

RuthTaylor

Hello All,

Does anyone else here dislike talking to the people on the phone and dread making or receiving phone calls?

I don't like speaking to people on the phone and would rather text, WhatsApp, Skype or email people.  If I do use the phone it is only to speak to my husband, my dad or for work.  I always like to keep telephone conversations short as well.

Does anyone else have this issue?  Talking to people on the phone seems to be making me more and more anxious the older I get.

Thanks for your time :-)

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  • I've set a boundary of "no phone calls" and am glad I did. Despite decades of practice, including getting a job in a call center, I've never had a successful phone call with a human. I can't translate the noises into words and respond quickly enough to avoid the other person assuming we've been cut off and hanging up.

    The only phone calls I can manage are with machines - e.g. calling my phone provider to check my balance, or when I had to call my credit card provider after they got taken over by another company to confirm I wanted to remain a customer. The machines speak nice and slowly and clearly, and then they wait for you to speak, or even better, to input a response using the keypad. If you've missed what they said they often repeat it. Humans gabble and if they have to repeat anything they change the words second time around so it's even more confusing. Then you have the anxiety of not knowing if they wrote down what you said correctly (they usually don't).

    I've started telling services that I cannot do phone calls and require an alternative form of communication due to disability.

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  • I've set a boundary of "no phone calls" and am glad I did. Despite decades of practice, including getting a job in a call center, I've never had a successful phone call with a human. I can't translate the noises into words and respond quickly enough to avoid the other person assuming we've been cut off and hanging up.

    The only phone calls I can manage are with machines - e.g. calling my phone provider to check my balance, or when I had to call my credit card provider after they got taken over by another company to confirm I wanted to remain a customer. The machines speak nice and slowly and clearly, and then they wait for you to speak, or even better, to input a response using the keypad. If you've missed what they said they often repeat it. Humans gabble and if they have to repeat anything they change the words second time around so it's even more confusing. Then you have the anxiety of not knowing if they wrote down what you said correctly (they usually don't).

    I've started telling services that I cannot do phone calls and require an alternative form of communication due to disability.

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