Aspies For Freedom

Don't even get me started. I will just say I hate phones too.

i actually hate useing a phone.

i think its cute that in Death Note, L. makes everyone turn off and leave their phones in another room, but then in the middle of the conversation his rings and he answers it, on it for only 5 seconds, and everyone mutters "i thought he hated phones.." (L. is an autie super-genious FBI assistant from a popular anime series)

i actually just hang up on people if i dont like teh conversation sometimes, i hate having to go trhough the lengthy goodbyes, ihate having to start the conversation, i hate how its so much easier to misunderstand someone becuase you cant even see them, i hate my voice, i hate the fuzzy sound of a voice in a phone.

i have been talking to someone alot latley, who loves the phone, but multiple times i told him "get on msn, id rather type" anyway.

Death note rules

I too get a bit nervous when I'm talking on thew phone & wanna hang up quickly. Especially when I'm talking to my grandparents (my grandma mostly) I'm like "please just make your point & shut up." Thats why I like the internet: no voice to hear you being nervous.

I love your poem

Ah, I agree!
(finally) people who understand! *tears*

I too cannot stand using phones. It boards on a phobia i guess.
The ringing of a phone is one of the most annoying sounds, whenever i hear it i want to scream.
I already don't like talking for long lengths of time and many people love to talk on the phone for hours!
The only people I talk to are my grandma and my best friend (and with her it's like me just listening. not saying a word. sometimes not one word for hours at a time!)
It's like i just can't say anything, my mouth won't let me.

I especially hate talking to people i don't know or that I don't talk to often in person. I get so nervous in these situations, sometimes having to hang up no matter what.

When i was young and helped out at my dads office, he always made my job answering phones. I'd dread the thought of talking to his clients and always make excuses.

I love those services were there are recordings and you don't have to speak to an actual person (life savers truly).

I have a cell phone (with too many minutes on it) but never use it. It drives my friends crazy and they often ask why i don't like it. No one seems to understand my problem with phone conversations. They all think I'm not serious or that i'm just being difficult. My fav cousin is even very mad at me because we never talk. Even now (this week) she is expecting me to call her but I can't get the nerve to do it.

I'm now at a time when phone calls are crucial (grrr >.> ) : College. I've applied and been accepted and now they call and call and call. And my parents want me to call back! I'm way too scared so i procrastonate (sp??) and they get mad... *sigh* Wish me luck in surviving this.

@quickduck: Your poem is great!

I get so nervous when I call certain people (a girl I like) or (bosses). Its scary how nervous I get. Often times I hope they will call me. This is why I like the internet because it helps me communicate a lot easier then the phone.

Sometimes I'm in a real talkative mood, but more often I'd just rather let my calls go to the answering machine.  Telephones are a pox on civilization (not sure I believe that, but it rolls onto the screen quite nicely!)

i analyze phonecalls way too much.
i dont like them at all.

i miss out on bills etc, cos i dont use the phone to cancel things for example.
i got alot of debts just cos i did not make a telephone call.

its not like i dont want to call, i get really anxious cos i dont.
prolly more anxious from that i dont make the call.
still i cant help it.

I loathe phone calls. The one person who I enjoy talking to on the phone is my boyfriend, but even our conversations are usually quite short (Hello! What have you done today? What are you doing tomorrow? Love you. Bye.).

I tend to get easily distracted when I'm on the phone, and if there is a TV on or people talking at my end then I can't tell who is saying what and I end up having no idea what the conversation is about. I text or email as much as possible instead of using the phone.

I really hate it when I have to make official phonecalls. I get very anxious and I get confused easily, plus people who don't know me often have difficulty understanding the way I speak, especially over the phone, so I have to repeat myself over and over again.

Wow, it's possible to have a boyfriend like that?  I tend to think a relationship would by necessity involve intense nearly daily contact & thus avoid even the idea of it.  It'd be great to have a boyfriend who'd be understanding enough of/related enough to a need for solitude!

Me and my boyfriend do talk on the phone everyday, but he always calls me at a set time so I know when to expect it. He calls me because I would forget to call him if it was left up to me.

Luckily me and my boyfriend are very similar in most ways. We both need our time alone, we both have intense obsessions (although not with the same subject), we both hate crowds and social situations (unless it with people we are comfortable with) and we both have the same stupid sense of humour.

There can't be many couples who are happy to sit in silence for hours whilst I work on my artwork and he paints his Warhammer 40K miniatures!

If you want to find a brilliant boyfriend, go for a geek!

no i mean, i get locked on a few things that i repeat in my head so i miss the rest of the discussion.

hard to explain what i mean....

I have a 'pay as you go' cell phone - just in case of an emergency like a car breakdown at night.  I just feel safer that way - partly because I'm a woman?  Otherwise I've only used it, I think twice and both very briefly, in 6 months.  Before that I had only a cell phone but no land line, and in the long run it was more expensive, given the number of calls I made (as few as possible, but some long ones with a friend locally).  

One of my cousins is deaf, and the way it works is that on her end she uses a keyboard, which connects to a 'translator' service.  The service has operators who handle the calls, for instance calling me for her, then she 'texts' what she wants to say, the operator reads it to me, I reply verbally and it's texted back to my cousin, and so on.  It's a kind of odd-feeling conversation to me; I wish she had a computer/Internet access at home so we could communicate that way.  But it does give me a bit more time to think through what I have to say.  

Of course, I generally feel a little uncomfortable with the operator, though they've always been courteous at the very least and generally friendly & supportive.