Emotions.

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I feel that it is easier saying how i feel when i write it down than when i have to chat about it. If i chat about it i tend to become very embarrased and i always lie , but when i write it all comes out. Anyone else writing down how they feel is easier than saying it?.

Yes! I find it much easier to write down my emotions than actually say them. I'm trying to learn how to chat about emotions without hiding them, but it's really hard to do.

That's how I am, too! My case manager had to fight for me to be allowed to text her. I have a hard time actually saying what's going on. It's a lot easier for me to text someone when I'm upset than to call them. I'm finally getting pretty good talking to my therapist, though. I say finally because it's been, like, three years.

Yeah, same here. It's easier for me to write down what I'm feeling rather than verbally describe what I'm feeling on the spot.

Yes I have always been like that, talking about it is extremely hard for me.

I have to write everything down. I get so frustrated when trying to explain things verbally because I can't seem to say what I want to say.

I always lurk to the point of redundancy - but this itself might be more embarrassing than freely expressing. My generic tactfulness seems to have manifest as a result of this. Touch typing (dvorak) has enabled me to communicate more "smoothly" as my "bipolar" seeming emotions may be more accurate than any foreign "idea" prospectively.

As far as talking about my feelings I also enjoy text more because I have difficulties with speech in general. I also fail in a therapy setting because my persona created to blend into NT land always talks to NTs for me. Often people in control of therapy settings are NTs I don't even talk to my other neurologically challenged friends about my feelings or emotions in the presence of certain NTs. I have an easier time just hanging out with my friends outside of a certain kind of "therapeutic environment". Now I don't even bother with therapy it always makes me feel worse.

It's easier for me to just write about my emotions, because if I try to explain my emotions to others, I break down and start crying.