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Ugggghhhhhh... Hate the telephone... More often than not, if I do pick it up it is only to immediately hang up on whoever is calling because the ring is especially upsetting to me that day. I freak out if I have calls I have to make. It messes up my whole day. The phone is not my friend.

i really hate speaking on the phone. voice inflections mean so little. i never know when i should talk. it is all interruptions and broken sentences. but texting has been a god's send for me. i can actually maintain somewhat of a friendship with that alone.

I actually can't use the phone in terms of calling a person. Even my own parents, I text or email them instead. As far as receiving calls, I let it go to voice mail unless I'm expecting the call. If I'm expecting the call I'll keep the phone in my hand waiting around the time in a pretty anxious state.

This causes great difficulty sometimes. Especially with getting tradesmen out to do work on my house. If I want Pizza I have to use dominos as they let you order online.

Yeah the telephone scares me too. It's so difficult to communicate for me using it. I think because I find it difficult to understand what people are saying. My hearing's good but sifting through the sounds is difficult. And if anyone speaks to me off to one side while I'm on the phone it completely throws me out of the conversation. About the only people I can talk to without getting stressed on the phone are my parents.

I hate that tongue tied feeling of not knowing what to say, or when the words won't come out. In theory I agree it should be easier because there are no non verbal signals but I don't find it any easier sadly.

I don't like using the phone at all I have mobile phone but i don't use.

I think I've always had a built-in aversion to telephones. I have never felt comfortable talking on the phone by either answering the phone, making phone calls, or returning phone calls.

When the phone rings, especially when I'm not expecting a phone call, I usually have a difficult time, if not impossible time, in talking myself into stopping whatever I'm doing in order to pick up the receiver and begin instantly socializing.

I like talking on the phone but I'm not very good at hearing the other person sometimes. Probably due to my APD Decoding Deficit which means i have problems making out degraded speech. I'm always asking people to repeat stuff and i think it might annoy them a bit.

Answering the phone is something I like doing, which is fortunate cos my brother hates doing it. I like talking to people and any excuse will do. I'll sometimes get all excited by the phone ringing and then be disappointed when it's a telemarketer.

Calling people up is another matter. I always seem to get nervous before hand thinking paranoid stuff like "what if I interrupt them during something important and they yell at me." Unlikely, but it must have happened before or I wouldn't be scared of it. Calling girls on the phone is tough too. Sometimes it'll take me up to half an hour to get psyched up. It's a lot better now though (more like 5 mins) but I have no girls to call now! However once I get started my nervousness goes away just like that. (snaps fingers)

Oh and I never leave messages on an answering machine. I just hate doing it. The thought of making a mistake and it being recorded freaks me out.

I know exactly how you feel. I've gotten a little better with them but I still dislike using them,

I absolutely hate the telephone. Definitely prefer email instead.

I used to be scared to death of phones, especially at work.

Nowadays I'm a bit better, and I even have a few people I can talk to for hours.

Still prefer texting, though.

I hate the phone.

But it's more complex than that.

If the phone has caller ID, I am okay answering a call from someone I know--except when I'm not.

I am fine using the phone to call someone else for routine stuff, but it is almost impossible for me to make a call for something that is not routine or simple. But I am fine making a complex call to a work colleague about an issue that we are working through.

I am fine answering the phone at my parents' home, because it's never for me.

But with all of that being said, when I actually answer the phone, I can function fine--which just makes me hate the phone more.

Im not very good with phones to be honest i find them very uncomfortable.