Guest guest Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 If it makes you all feel any better, I don't know what anyone did to me, I'm taking 18 hrs this quarter in college & only pop in when I can. There were so many pages of postings today I couldn't find the beginnings of any thread. So thanks for defending me, but I really don't know what it's about, nor am I worried. I'm comfortable with who I am and if someone disagrees, that's fine, I'm not gonna stop searching for a cure for my daughter's illness. Debi This is a free > country..EVERYONE has the right to say what they feel....tell about > something that they know...or ask a question and not have to be called > names and get their heads ripped off, like they did to Debi today. They > owe Debi an apology! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Penny, thank you so much for the much needed reminder that it is difficult to get a total understanding of someone's message through this mode of communication. It needed to be said. I hope that we can all get past this and get on to helping each other deal with what we all came here to discuss. That is our struggles with autism and daily life. penelope_fam wrote: Amy, my tone is gentle, the words I am typing are soft. 70% of communication is non-verbal, and yet here we are, on a medium that wipes out a good chunk of the components of communication. We do have some context and past experience (both components of non-verbal communication) with you, but we're missing facial expression, gestures, the pitch and tone of your voice, among other non-verbal factors. Readers plug in their own experience, reaction, interpretation to your words when those non-verbal pieces are absent. There is so very much missing in a chat group or list serve that requires our words to be extra specific, and even then, the intent, the meaning we intended, is missed, off the mark. There is much room for misinterpretation in a medium like this one. Sometimes comments that are typed are pointed in a direction that leave a lot of us with our mouths hitting the desktop, and that can't be avoided here. Pen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2008 Report Share Posted February 4, 2008 Penny, thank you so much for the much needed reminder that it is difficult to get a total understanding of someone's message through this mode of communication. It needed to be said. I hope that we can all get past this and get on to helping each other deal with what we all came here to discuss. That is our struggles with autism and daily life. penelope_fam wrote: Amy, my tone is gentle, the words I am typing are soft. 70% of communication is non-verbal, and yet here we are, on a medium that wipes out a good chunk of the components of communication. We do have some context and past experience (both components of non-verbal communication) with you, but we're missing facial expression, gestures, the pitch and tone of your voice, among other non-verbal factors. Readers plug in their own experience, reaction, interpretation to your words when those non-verbal pieces are absent. There is so very much missing in a chat group or list serve that requires our words to be extra specific, and even then, the intent, the meaning we intended, is missed, off the mark. There is much room for misinterpretation in a medium like this one. Sometimes comments that are typed are pointed in a direction that leave a lot of us with our mouths hitting the desktop, and that can't be avoided here. Pen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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