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They can certainly talk, its listening that seems to elude them.

Slinks off to hide in the corner.

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Simple Karen darlin' you do it more often and for longer than us 'blokes'.

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Communication was never my strong point and I think that it's because I prefer to keep a low profile.

That's because I was, and still am a bit of a shy person and do not like to draw attention to myself.

However, now that I am profoundly deaf, communication has taken on an entirely different meaning for me but I still can't shake off my preference to a low profile not matter how hard I try.

The odd thing is that I can communicate well in writing, or at least I do try very hard to do so.

It's one of THE reasons that I like forums because I can put across my point of view but I have realised that wording is all-important when you go online and you can easily "say" something that is misunderstood so I try to be as careful as I can but obviously that doesn't always work.

In the working environment communication is often poor because it seems to rely on word-of-mouth or gossip amongst employees; it's almost a foregone conclusion by management that all communications to one employee or a group of employees are always passed on in this manner but it's actually a fallacy.

I once saw a BBC course advertised internally by our Personnel Department and I thought back then it seemed a rather silly subject for a course but looking back, I wish now that I'd gone for it because I'm really quite bad with verbal communication and I suspect that poor verbal communication skills are quite common. stevmk2

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I see you

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Apparently not Uncle Joe:

' While men tend to chat more, it's women who have the gift of the gab and communicate better.

Researchers from the University of Manchester found that men speak more words than women over the course of a day, but due to their weaker command of language in social situations, they repeat the same words and pay dubious compliments.'

http://www.totallyliving.co.uk/famil...unicate-better

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Ive never been good at communication, as a child found it better to keep out of sight and out of mind. A learned state i carried into adulthood, and it has had consequences.

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I think that written communication is so much harder than 'face to face', where you can read the reaction to what you've said.

I know that sometimes, I'll type out a reply on a forum, read it through and think 'no, that could be taken the wrong way' which leads me to delete what I've written. Usually, I'm ok though .

Gwyn

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Thats true - best to re-read before submitting .....

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I do that too Alice but the problem can be that what you feel is inoffensive someone else feels IS offensive and, in extreme cases, believe you are 'getting at them'!!

I have two members that I block on this forum.

One because I know who he is and I know he'll do almost anything to annoy me and he's on so many forums under different guises; most of which I know now.

The other is because he seems hell-bent on ridiculing everything I post, regardless of how carefully I've thought it out so, as far as I'm concerned, he's simply not worth the effort!

He may in fact be the same person as the first one I've mentioned as his tactics are identical.

This isn't something that I like to do - blocking others - but sometimes it's the only way to cut-off their 'feed' or 'oxygen supply'. stevmk2

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F*** aye. I rocks at communicating all types of s***, though I do tend to swear a lot whilst doing so - you probably haven't noticed ...