18 Mar 2009, 9:56 am
LabPet wrote:
But never fear! There is the alternative method (this works...): Write you note. Tie it to a heavy brick and throw it hard at the person who's supposed to be listening to you. Lab Pet can be crafty....heh heh.
I don't think that would go over too well in a legal hearing, though.
I'm glad most people say text is easiest, at least for complex communication. I didn't think it was just me. (Although given that this is the internet, there may be a response bias. But still.) I guess my next task is to figure out who in Vancouver I can turn to for advice on getting things changed. Technically, we have the right to communication in a form that doesn't silence us, but convincing people of that may be hard. Hmmm.
I personally don't have anyone to make phone calls for me. My family never would have done anything like that even if they were supportive, so I've learned to tough out the essential calls, like making appointments (a fairly technical endeavour). But in terms of human rights, we're supposed to be able to communicate independently, for times when there is no one to help, and so we don't have to wait for other people to help all the time.
18 Mar 2009, 10:26 am
18 Mar 2009, 10:31 am
I voted "other," because, for me, in order of difficulty (easiest to hardest), it goes: e-mail, in person, phone. E-mail (I rarely text message) is easiest for me, but I'd rather go talk to a person (if I know them well) about something important, so I can hear the tone of their voice and really know what their reaction is. I rely on tone of voice for understanding social cues. If it's somebody I don't know, I don't do well meeting them, usually. However, talking on the phone has always been incredibly hard for me. I hate it. I'm terrible at knowing when it's my turn to speak, so I always accidentally interrupt the other person, and I always get my thoughts jumbled and don't know what to say. 
-OddDuckNash99-
