wobblegong

Thinkin' about animals....

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*tiny furry cheeps*


I understand that on some level the problem is the world expects that there's at least some way to promptly reach me, but the reality is that I do not merely hate and detest mobile phones: I don't even remember mine exists until God manages to rimshot the one brain cell, and let me tell you, She is not managing that on a daily basis.


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Well besides the fact that that's where all the damn emails are, for reasons that are unclear to me there's certain word processor UIs that make me forget the entire English language let alone how to write. I don't know why! It's not a problem exclusive to email, I had to do some googling to change how LibreOffice Writer looks to be able to use it.

My one email-specific complaint is that I am bad at letter writing. I am good at casual-conversational tone; I am good at essays written for whatever audience I have in mind. "Please write something too formal to have swears in it, for one specific recipient" = thanks but I'll just die instead!! I can't even figure out how to email one parent (which is the lowest possible bar, my parents are chill and just want to hear from me) without turning into a space robot who forgets to include things they wanted to say because they literally cannot form sentences containing the information wtf. Truly, truly, truly wretched.

Ahhhh ok, I getcha. I'm used to emails so I always wish I could do them instead of phone calls... like for making appointments and stuff. But the sort of social etiquette around them is definitely a thing.

The social etiquette isn't even bad! I just end up in a weird Social Anxiety + Overthinking It hellhole from which I cannot escape to actually compose words into sentences. (That's how my social-ish anxiety tends to go, being fair... I am completely fine right up until an edge case situation where I am NOT FINE, I AM THE LEAST FINE ANYONE HAS EVER BEEN.)

I should clarify that I love asynchronous communication more than oxygen. This does not mean they are all interchangable or can't come with other features that make me want to eat 5 bowls of strawberries in one sitting.