TIL I’m autistic
I think that’s more of a general anxiety thing than autism, but wtf do I, an internet expert on all things, know?
It’s not proper to autism per se. It’s the same situation as with answering to an email. People will be anxious, but will do it in a reasonable amount of time. Autist on the other hand will take ages to answer if they will answer at all.
The amount of anxiety in autists as well as the consequences are higher.
Heh, I do that with emails. I also re-write them a bunch before sending or just deleting. Hell I’ve rewrote this post about half a dozen times now. It’s actually quite bloody annoying.
I think that’s more of a general anxiety thing than autism, but wtf do I, an internet expert on all things, know?
This is the same for visiting family for me. The build up is awful, then I have an okay time, then I’m happy to be going home but absolutely fucking knackered.
I will go out of my way to avoid calling someone. I just can’t deal with it. After a call I feel like I need a shower cause I’m sweaty and exhausted. I’d rather search for contact information for an hour and wait for mail reply than do a call for 5 minutes.
Calling is OK for me… Getting called now? That’s hell. Totally no control over sensory input (that infernal ringing noise), no control over who or when or what they want?
I turned my phone to vibrate because the constant notification noise was driving me crazy. Then the vibrating drove me crazy. I haven’t taken my phone off silent since. I have a smart watch that only vibrates for 3 things so I don’t have to deal with all the extra interference.
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I’ve had a support ticket open with GoDaddy for six months because they want me to call them and I keep hoping sooner or later they’ll just let me do what I need online.
My god I feel this so much.
I could cry when my phone rings.
Don’t forget involuntarily waking up at 5 to worry about the call and rehearse for it.
This goes hard
How did you get access to my calendar?
Few weeks back I was checking out this counselling service in my area and they had a self referral form so I thought why not and filled it in. There was a box to fill in a phone number and it was mandatory so I just put in some random numbers because fuck getting called out of the blue by people I don’t know and they have my email anyway, and fired that off. A week later I get an email from them saying how they tried to ring me but got nothing, emailed back explaining I really fucking hate using phones etc and got another email saying they can do Microsoft Teams instead if I want. Wasn’t massively keen on that but I it’s a lot better than phones so I agreed to it. Then a few days later I get another email saying they got my email about wanting to do a Teams call but could I ring them up to confirm it. I just gave up then. I did notice that it was two different people who responded to me but wouldn’t it have hurt the second person to check the previous replies? I dunno but whatever, I got stupidly annoyed by it and that’s the end of that. It’s such a fucking hassle having a phone phobia.
I’ve gotten into a habit of “I’ll do it right now so I don’t have time to become anxious” and so I’ve gotten better about making calls now.
