Dave explains how and why people on the spectrum often have difficulty with or simply dislike talking on the telephone vs communicating in person.

Dave explains how and why people on the spectrum often have difficulty with or simply dislike talking on the telephone vs communicating in person.

  • Simon Müller@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    a TL;DR from my own interpretation:

    • Dave (the person making the video) feels uncomfortable; ‘even talking to my wife on the phone somehow feels stilted, remote, and disconnected’
    • Dave talks about other reasons, like struggling to initiate or accept a phone call, that people with ASD might dislike phone calls
    • Dave also struggles with figuring out who is supposed to be talking / whose turn it is, especially due to a lack of cues that can be used to identify that
    • Another thing mentioned is how the fact that these cues are missing can also lead to misunderstandings. When someone asks a question and expects an immediate response (e.g “I think that…”), if you take a moment to reply the other end might think you disagree with them.
    • He also talks about many cues that can imply different things explicitly, like volume, pitch or tone of voice, as well as pauses, pacing or changes in intonation.

    Edit: whoops I left a bulletpoint dangling there

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      On top of all of these reasons, telephones are pretty painful sensorially for me. The distortion caused by telephony companies performing lossy compression on the audio leads to some truly painful sounds coming out of it and it’s very difficult to even process what someone is saying. We live in 2024 but phone call audio quality sounds like we’re back in the 1800s