Questions tagged [written-interaction]
Questions about using written medium to interact with people. This includes note, text, chat, email, and letter.
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How can I do mirroring online, similar to my mirroring in person?
TLDR: I'd like to be able to use mirroring online, similar to how I do this in person, and change my communication style online so that it will be more well-received by people, and be more similar to ...
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Do emojis help autists recognize feelings?
Lately read an article about emojis and how inferior they are supposed to be in comparison to facial expression and tone of voice. (The article is in German, probably paywalled, and not really ...
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How can I ask my neighbours to refrain from using EV spaces?
My wife and I own a little electric vehicle, EV, and live in an area with many public EV charging points. Most of the time, our EV is fantastic; we plug it in when we get home, and then in the morning ...
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As a customer, how to deal with an unresponsive company representative without poisoning the relationship?
I am currently in the process of building a house, which is quite a stressful experience.
The site administrator (my immediate contact person) was recently replaced. The previous administrator was a ...
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Why is it considered bad form to break up with someone over written text?
I am autistic and, when I was a teenager (10 years ago), I had always heard that it was "rude" to break up with someone over text. However, I never understood why.
What's wrong with ...
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In online dating, how do I ask a date why she seems so disinterested?
I (male) contacted a woman (19 years old) through an online dating service. We have been exchanging messages for three weeks now. She lives not far across the border in a neighboring country, but ...
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How do I encourage my literature penpal to share her opinions more?
My penpal and I have become great friends. We email about every three days, sometimes more, and in just a few months she's turned out to be one of the most positive relationships in my life. She's ...
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How can I assert my domain knowledge, while signalling openness to useful information, over email?
My current project at work is part of a product that many people use internally, with an active email list for user feedback. I recently pushed out a rather visible change and unsurprisingly someone ...
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How to not look like showing off when presenting the best of me? [closed]
I'm writing an application to a summer school. The school will teach a range of topics and I admit that I may be over qualified for some. That means:
I may have more knowledge with other applicants
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How to tell someone that I'm on the autism spectrum while mitigating the risk of not been believed?
I'm on the autism spectrum. My manager knows about that but my coworkers don't.
I have been working here for a little more than a year and not telling my coworkers that I'm on the spectrum is really ...
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How to have friend doing a favour sign a contract without making it look like I'm taking advantage of him?
I have a tendency to over think things, get paranoid and get anxiety when it comes to the law. I had a couple of very unfortunate experience, even one I was completely in the right going to court is a ...
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How to deal with people who annoy me by ignoring my question in text communication? [closed]
For this question, I am talking about informal texting conversation with friends, acquaintance only.
Suppose I am talking to someone and they ignored my question (either intentionally or not), I feel ...
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How to inform my family of my child's new gender identity?
As an extension to this question, my daughter was very relieved when I offered to talk to my family for her. My husband thought of having a brunch with our kids not in attendance. I thought of doing ...
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Do I say 'You're Welcome' to a thank you message that would normally not require an answer? [closed]
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I work in a company in Germany and I'm fairly new to my colleagues. Recently our team got a new boss. During a task that my boss performed he pointed out the the outcome was not to his ...
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How can I convey my sympathy to friends who have recently told me they can't have children while avoiding hurting them?
Friends of mine recently wrote me that they would really have liked to have children but unfortunately can’t. I would like to express my sympathy for them while avoiding hurting them more than they ...
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How to ask people not to send me voicemails via text messaging apps
I find listening to voicemails on Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp very time consuming. In particular, the Facebook Messenger interface doesn't let me skip in the message if most of it is irrelevant to ...
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How to let tech support subtly know that I am proficient without showing off?
I manage a couple of small websites for friends and family as their admin, ranging from installing wordpress to full-stack web development. In this position I often have to contact the support of ...
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How should I explain technical things to non-technical people? [closed]
I'm a programmer who is trying to explain a concept to a non-technical person, in particular the Azure Event Hub and Big Data.
I also need to explain why there is an elephant on the picture:
When ...
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Love Confession by Personally Handing Over Handwritten Letter
There is a person I've met at the workplace who I've become interested in since I was introduced to on my first day at work. The development of our relationship was slow due to being in a different ...
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How to tell when a girl friend is not a girlfriend?
As a non-native English user, I sometimes have difficulty determining when someone mention "girl friend" really means girlfriend in a romantic relationship. Related post in ELU Does “girlfriend” or “...