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[juffur]

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[RooRoo]

I'm generally a shy person, and I've been thinking a lot lately about how to improve my conversational skills--Particularly in a way that is less anxiety provoking than just walking up to random people and chatting. So I am wondering, could talking on skype, or making youtube videos help aspies develop better social skills? Let me know what you think.

i say yes it may help i skype but still pretty shy even when i skype with my best friend .

and most of the time i just sit there and make weird faces at him

 

[smithgirl656]

i think if you get comfortable with the person, voice chats will help. the first time i did that with someone i didn't talk at all, but i think if i did it again i would at least say hello and the more i would do it the better i would be at it. so i say that if you try it over and over with someone you are comfortable with then it would help you.

 

[Sean2222]

I've never done voice chat. But is that similar to talking on the phone. That's incredibly difficult for me, even worse than talking to someone in person who i don't know. There is somehting about talking on the phone that is empty and makes me go blank.

 

[superboyian]

I normally force myself to talk to the person day by day to the point where I end up feeling comfortable to talk to them, now-a-days I can just simply talk to anyone but I still have my awkwardness but I'm far more comfortable if I know someone though.

 

[richbebo]

I'm actually pretty good at it, but depends on the timing, i have on days and off days. An on day being when i can happily greet and chat to people feeling confident but still not normaly hold a long convo(unless its a close freind or family in which its always easy) and an off day being when i just want to disapear into my own head and just daydream or just do what i want. If i am forced to go out on such a day i'll avoid conversation, thankfully these days are getting less and less over time. I also find that ascociates are actually the hardest to talk to, people that you dont really know but you still feel like you need to say something and i dont like being suprised by those people and by that i mean running into them unexpectedly.
I actually dont really listen to some people when they talk because i find myself worrying to much about the next thing i'm going to say, questions for instance, i often ask questions and then dont listen to the answer they give me, also i sometimes ask questions that i know the answer to just to make conversation, pretty silly i know, anyone else like this?