How to stop being awkward during phone calls? I try to…
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How to stop being awkward during phone calls?
I try to talk confidently but I always end up saying something strange or making a huge pause in the wrong place or just the other person starts acting unnatural like I did something wrong
I have had some great interactions before amd was really happy about it but like 95% of my phone calls don't feel quite right honestly, I really struggle with finding out what I did wrong but I would say my mind goes blank a lot especially for greetings and goodbyes I am trying to learn ways to express them fluidly but they almost always come out super strange
I know I should not compare myself to others but I don't know I just feel like I should know how to do this by now cause I'm 25 and I have made hundreds of phone calls before
It just feels like I am not great at forming sentences on the fly, the first sentence that comes to mind usually is not appropriate to say out loud so I think about a bunch of ways to say what I wanna say and once I find a good one I try to say it but there is just no time in real time situations and quite often I can't even think of a good formulation so I just say the first sentence that came to mind and usually it's not accepted too well
I guess it's a problem of lack of intuition on how to sound normal if that makes sense? Probably cause I haven't had enough social interaction during my life? (Although I have had friends before but usually other loners so we don't have regular expectations on social fluidity and stuff)
Sorry if I sound like I'm just complaining and berating myself, I am just trying to express my problems with social interaction and giving context for my question in the title, hopefully anyone with experience here can help me? Thanks in advance!
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I try to talk confidently but I always end up saying something strange or making a huge pause in the wrong place or just the other person starts acting unnatural like I did something wrong
I have had some great interactions before amd was really happy about it but like 95% of my phone calls don't feel quite right honestly, I really struggle with finding out what I did wrong but I would say my mind goes blank a lot especially for greetings and goodbyes I am trying to learn ways to express them fluidly but they almost always come out super strange
I know I should not compare myself to others but I don't know I just feel like I should know how to do this by now cause I'm 25 and I have made hundreds of phone calls before
It just feels like I am not great at forming sentences on the fly, the first sentence that comes to mind usually is not appropriate to say out loud so I think about a bunch of ways to say what I wanna say and once I find a good one I try to say it but there is just no time in real time situations and quite often I can't even think of a good formulation so I just say the first sentence that came to mind and usually it's not accepted too well
I guess it's a problem of lack of intuition on how to sound normal if that makes sense? Probably cause I haven't had enough social interaction during my life? (Although I have had friends before but usually other loners so we don't have regular expectations on social fluidity and stuff)
Sorry if I sound like I'm just complaining and berating myself, I am just trying to express my problems with social interaction and giving context for my question in the title, hopefully anyone with experience here can help me? Thanks in advance!
#relationships
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