Would you rather communicate through speech or text?

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Good question! I wish it would be through text.......I'm a writer, and for some reason, every time I talk to my bf through text, I say much more saucy, fun stuff than I do in person....I can think about my words more and take my time to reply....to make sure I say the right thing, and not something stupid......blahhhh. LOL But unfortunately we have to talk....

Text, specifically typing even, is my preference a majority of the time. It's far easier to communicate when I don't have to deal wit speaking.

Text, usually typing. My phone use tends to be strictly texting, unless I have to call my doctors' office or my school, for example. Text can be edited and thought about before being sent along, whereas when you're speaking you have much less time to do so.

I don't know....speech has it's advantages and disadvantages, and text has it's advantages and disadvantages.

With speech I can relate to the person better, and can know what they mean by ''reading'' their tone of voice and what they're getting at, whereas sometimes when reading written communication you might read it differently, because there are some sentences which can have the exact same words but mean different things depending on how you say them. Often me or other people have read differently to what I or they meant. But I can't always say certain things with speech, like standing up for myself, for example. I just find it too hard, but I find it much easier on text. I have had an arguement with my ex-boyfriend over text before, and after about 50 texts of arguing, we finally settled an agreement, and I thought the things I wrote were really great, but I could never do that verbally with anyone. Not in a million years.

I didn't used to speak much at all so when I was in my teens, I didn't communicate. If I hadn't been able to type the letters to my Mum telling her what had really happened at school (bullying etc.) I don't think she would have ever known. I am able to talk a lot now thanks to a few years being in the right place, but I still 'waffle' apparently. I try to talk about more than one thing now because that's what annoyed my Mum. I look for lots of different information about lots of things so that I have something interesting to talk to her about. It still is difficult though because I have a habit of going from one subject to the next before I have even finished explaining and then I get confused, then the person I was speaking to gets confused... I give up usually! I am still much more able to get my point across through typing than speech though.

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Text, through typing, every time.
Unless I know the other person and their ways really well and fully trust them, attempts at speaking usually grind to an embarrassing halt - either because I seize up or because I've "brain dumped" on them. Even when things don't grind to a halt I'm faltering, and only later think of all the better things I should have said - when it's far too late to say them.
Speaking is subject to too many random influences I don't see coming; it's too hit-and-miss and confusing to get right with any certainty. Things just seem to quickly fall apart and I often have no idea why.
Writing gives me time to absorb and understand what's said, and a response is much easier to consider and express.

Text. The unnaturalness of it makes it all the more natural for me.

text

Text definitely

Text FTW!

Text for sure.

Text, definitely.

There are times I wish my speech was constrained enough to require use of a text communication device. That way, people wouldn't expect me to use speech and allow me to use the device instead.

The stammering, "going blank", and word-finding problems when trying to speak are part of the reason I stay silent around others and find speaking a chore. Yet putting words in writing feels to me like it does for an NT to use speech, effortless. I could probably communicate non-stop if it was acceptable to use written text instead of speech.