7:44pm May 3, 2015

When people talk on the phone for me.

I often have phone conversations where I type out what I want someone to speak into the phone, because using my synthesized voice often creates too much trouble in both directions.

But people do things that drive me nuts:

1.  They try to correct the pronouns.  So I’ll write “I want to do something” and they’ll say “She wants to do something.”

2.  They’ll try to paraphrase things rather than just reading out loud what is on the screen without changing it.

3.  If I swear, they’ll skip that entirely.

None of which helps either me or them.  Because it makes it *harder* for them – they have to think of which words to change and why.  If they’d just read what I wrote, then I would get my ideas across (often they think if they simplify what I’m saying then people will understand it better – the opposite is almost always true, which is why paraphrasing doesn’t work), and they wouldn’t have to do all the mental gymnastics involved in doing all the things I didn’t want them to do in the first place.

Oh well. 

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