Re: Learning to communicate
I don't think it is just nervousness. What helps me communicate better on a forum (and, as I said, I still don't think it's that great, but it's better) is that I can try one way of saying it, edit, organize, take time. I can look at what I'm saying and see if it makes sense, before putting it out there.
Whereas, in conversation there's no time to organize; it's just assumed that people's thoughts are already in a form that is digestible by others. And I don't think mine are. I have to translate my thoughts into English, if that makes sense (not that I think in Polish or Spanish or something, it's just that I don't think of my thoughts as 'words') It's as though anything I put down on paper (or electronic text) is a pale imitation of the real ideas I had, and yet it doesn't seem as though it's this way for everyone.
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