Absolutely. I have to force myself to make phone calls, and I have to plan out what I'm going to say, even if the phone call is no more than, "Hello, what are your store hours today? Thank you." If I just went with my gut, I'd just say, "Hey, when are you open? 'Kay, bye." And the NTs get really snippy about that. The frustrating thing is, I'm hypersensitive about other people's responses to me, so if I think it over, I know that I'd be upset if someone was short with me, so I try to include all the stuff, in planning ahead, that it never occurs to me to say in the moment. Sometimes I even wonder if I'm AS or just badly raised, which I was, no one taught me diddly because they thought I'd pick it up from my siblings. Yeah, cause I'm psychic. Ha. Some joke. And then I'd get whining from them because I was so rude. Don't teach me manners then call me rude.
So for all I know I'm just traumatized about the danged phone. All I know is, even when you don't get someone's body language that well when you can see them, it still beats having to go by tone alone. And everyone, I swear it's everyone, sounds like they think you're wasting their time if you call them. Anyone else notice that? It's not just us... you call any business and odds are you'll get someone who's in a hurry to give you what you want and get rid of you. Who'd want to call anyone like that? Which is why I wonder why people keep calling me.
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