Uuh, I dunno...I hardly ever text. When I do it's usually something like 'picked up kids?' to my wife, or something like that, often just 'k' for okay. I may go weeks without a single sms message either direction.
I do however read & reply my email quite a lot on my phone.
I hate talking on the phone as well, it's very hard for me to concentrate on talking on the telephone unless I do something else simultaneously. If I have nothing to do while I'm on the phone my mind wanders, and suddenly I realize I'm gazing out the window and haven't listened to the other person on the line for the last 20 seconds already. For that reason, when a phone rings I automatically start doing something else, usually walk around the house quite fast, it helps me to concentrate on the audio only input. I like to talk on the phone when I'm driving for the same reason. If I don't talk with someone while I'm driving, it's very hard to keep alert to things on the road, so when I'm driving alone I always talk on the phone a little, sing to music, practice scales, anything, so my mind doesn't wander.
This inability to sustain attention to anything arriving via a single media or sensory channel was always very hard for me at school & university. I can listen to a lecture for 15 minutes and then it's just pfft, I end up in a dreamworld completely.
I just simply need both auditory and visual input, not just one, or do something kinetic simultaneously. It simply makes me concentrate better on both tasks to do them simultaneously, although it may sound strange.
It's often driven my wife crazy...you know, it is especially important I divide my attention when I'm thinking of something very important. So when my wife comes to me obviously shaken, saying like 'I lost my job today' the first thing I do is jump up and start organizing dishes into the cabinet, or anything at hand, because if I don't do something, I just stare blankly and my mind is going like 'oh shit oh shit' and I get nothing said or done. But soon as I start doing something I can again think straight and process the information and start talking. But to anyone who doesn't know me, of course, it usually looks like I don't give a shit or got mad, or whatever, but NOT the response they wanted anyway. But it's indeed the more anxious and the more worried I feel, the stronger the urge to do something. If it's like some mundane thing like 'buhaa, I broke a nail' I'll just hug her and say 'aww, too bad...' or whatever...but when the issue is more important, I just MUST burst into action.
I'm pretty sure that if I took a long driving test twice, once just driving, and once also chatting with someone on the phone, I'd do better when chatting.
Dee
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