I agree, and I'm delighted to see that I'm not the only person who believes that communication skills can be learned. I get so frustrated with people who say "I'm crap at talking to people, I'm just like that, there's nothing I can do about it" -- all communication is learned; it's not like I was visited by Good Fairies at my birth and granted the gift of Communication. (If I had been, I hope I'd be a lot better at communicating patiently rather than merely volubly!) I'm not saying it's easy, but it's certainly possible.
I can sympathise with sion_a as I used to have a similar problem with a lack of communication until ejde sledgehammered the skills into me
Paging ejde: I don't suppose you could lend me your sledgehammer for a bit, could you? ;-)
[snip other stuff -- all sounds very sensible, & it's always interesting to hear someone else's ways of dealing with stuff like this, but I'm not sure there's much specific I can say in reply to any of it]
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Date: 2003-02-11 03:56 am (UTC)I agree, and I'm delighted to see that I'm not the only person who believes that communication skills can be learned. I get so frustrated with people who say "I'm crap at talking to people, I'm just like that, there's nothing I can do about it" -- all communication is learned; it's not like I was visited by Good Fairies at my birth and granted the gift of Communication. (If I had been, I hope I'd be a lot better at communicating patiently rather than merely volubly!) I'm not saying it's easy, but it's certainly possible.
I can sympathise with sion_a as I used to have a similar problem with a lack of communication until ejde sledgehammered the skills into me
Paging
[snip other stuff -- all sounds very sensible, & it's always interesting to hear someone else's ways of dealing with stuff like this, but I'm not sure there's much specific I can say in reply to any of it]