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Dec. 21st, 2009 01:00 pmI'm not sure if this is unusual, normal, rare, or whatever, but this is an experience I have.
The way that I experience interpersonal communication seems somewhat different from the way that the people around me tend to describe their experiences. Whereas their descriptions tend to lend themselves towards a deeply intuitive and subconscious experience of interpersonal communication, mine is much more conscious and intellectual, at least when dealing with emotional content.
I'm great at dealing with purely semantic content in communication. Responding to the literal words of what someone is saying is very easy for me and doesn't present any difficulties or anything that seems dramatically different from what other people experience. At least as long as people stick with literal speech. Non-literal speech such as humor, sarcasm, etc. can confuse me a lot and often requires a smaller version of the process I'm going to describe below.
But when things get emotional, I seem to differ from other people, at least inasmuch as I can compare my experience to their described experiences.
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The way that I experience interpersonal communication seems somewhat different from the way that the people around me tend to describe their experiences. Whereas their descriptions tend to lend themselves towards a deeply intuitive and subconscious experience of interpersonal communication, mine is much more conscious and intellectual, at least when dealing with emotional content.
I'm great at dealing with purely semantic content in communication. Responding to the literal words of what someone is saying is very easy for me and doesn't present any difficulties or anything that seems dramatically different from what other people experience. At least as long as people stick with literal speech. Non-literal speech such as humor, sarcasm, etc. can confuse me a lot and often requires a smaller version of the process I'm going to describe below.
But when things get emotional, I seem to differ from other people, at least inasmuch as I can compare my experience to their described experiences.
Example: ( Read more... )
