Do you talk better through speech or your fingertips?

@gemini_rose (16264)
April 22, 2008 4:40pm CST
We all have our ways of communicating with each other, but what I am asking is when you want to talk to someone and I mean really talk, do you find it easier through speech or your fingers? Since being a child I have found it exceedingly hard to tell people how I feel and what I think about something, but put a pen in my hand or a keyboard at my fingers and the words will just flow!! Many many times when I have wanted to tell a friend or a loved one how I feel about something, or if I am hurt about something, I find it easier to put it all down through my fingertips rather than through my speech, the feelings just flow wheras in speech I trip and I stumble and cannot say what I want too. How about you? speech or fingertips? Which do you find the words you want to say the easiest and the best?
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@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
22 Apr 08
I am the same. I find it easier to talk from my heart through my fingertips. I tend to stumble and stutter a little while I am trying to get everything out but, you don't stumble and stutter through your fingertips. And, because no one can interrupt you while you are talking with your fingertips, you don't feel rushed like you have to say everything really quickly lest you bore someone and they start interrupting you. So, I definitely find it way easier to talk through my fingertips than through my lips. There are no judging eyes, no tapping feet, no one is looking at their watch while I am saying things with my fingertips. No pressure! Just me, my thoughts and my own inner time limits if I chose to give myself a time limit.
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@gemini_rose (16264)
25 Apr 08
I am the same, it is funny I think how a lot of us seem to be like this.
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@cortjo73 (6498)
• United States
25 Apr 08
You know, I think that it is because you don't have to feel like you have a time limit to say all that you have to say and to get it all out. You don't have any eyes on you. If you need to stop for a moment to collect your thoughts and think of how you want to word something, you can without anyone trying to fill in the blanks or trying to rush you along. It is just easier to organize your thoughts when no one is standing there with their eyes on you waiting for you to finish what you were saying.
@queenofarms (1659)
• United States
22 Apr 08
I have a hard time also talking to someone face to face. I can tell my feeling better on paper. When I try face to face I find I say things that I may not have wanted to say or may not tell it all. With writing it down I can review what I'm saying.
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@minnie_98214 (10557)
• United States
22 Apr 08
Fingertips for sure. I know I put alot more thought into it that way. Speaking you tend to just speak the 1st thing that pops into your mind and it doesnt always get your point across right.
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@subha12 (18441)
• India
23 Apr 08
it depends. i think i am more good at expressing myself in writing. i think its dependent on my nature. as i am more introvert may be its easier to convey in writing than speaking a lot which is not my cup of tea.
@gemini_rose (16264)
23 Apr 08
I too am more introvert and do not like speaking a lot.
@jennawash (161)
• United States
22 Apr 08
I have always been better with pen and paper than with words. I feel so vulnerable with a face to face conversation it's much easier for me to write it.
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@ruby222 (4847)
23 Apr 08
Morning Rose...well im a great hummer and a haer..lol if you can understand my meaning...I think i prefer to type than chatter actually...I liked chatting in the workplace...very much...but now im at home its different.So i think that though my typing maybe slightly dyslexic at times that i do indeed prefer to type.Like you im not too good at showing my feelings of hurt or upset ...I will tend to bottle them all up...which i accept isnt good for your health.But i think thats due to the way that we wewre brough up...we wouldnt have dreamt of ever showing our feelings...possibly it would have been seen as a weakness.Im not too good at giving opinions either!!...i tend to say what i think the other would like to hear...in case i offend them!!!..now my sister and i are chalk and cheese..and she will out with what she is thinking irrespective of the others feelings..sometimes it has caused her to lose good friends through doing it.
@gemini_rose (16264)
23 Apr 08
I understand what you mean. I like general chit chat too, in fact I am very good at that!!
@Zhanec (1651)
• Malaysia
23 Apr 08
for me,i find it easier to communicate with fingers.Usually when i speak,i tend to slow down compared to writing my thoughts out.I find it hard to give spontaneous speech sometimes because i am not a natural good speaker.I always worry that i might blurt out words that offense people.When i type or write ,i have more times to think and refining my words so to be as polite as possible.yea..just like you,i trip and stumble a lot during speech because words don't comes easily too me when i talk.Weirdly,i do better by writing or typing.
@gemini_rose (16264)
23 Apr 08
It is funny how a lot of us talk better putting words on paper than actually talking to each other, I always feel so comfortable in the silent world of written words.
@Modestah (11179)
• United States
21 May 08
it might not be saying much for myself, but I do much better typing out a conversation than having one verbally. I tend to trip over my words with a verbal conversation. typing I tend to use poor punctuation and spelling.
@mummymo (23706)
2 May 08
Usually it is through speech - I may get upset or muddle words up but I can talk about the way I feel if I am comfortable enough with the person I am talking too! I have however used the written word when I feel that someone (usually the other half) is either not listening or not hearing how I feel - he cannot escape the written word that I hand to him via letter or send straight to his email inbox! I believe as long as you can communicate your feelings, wishes and fears then it does not matter how you do it - just that you do! xxx
@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
23 Apr 08
I have for the most part found it easier through writing, if or when I have had something on my mind that was really important I find it better to write it, pen and paper not an email. If I'm just voicing an opinion about something I have never had a problem saying what I think. I think sitting down and writing it, you have the chance to re-write and perfect what you are trying to say. Normally if I am writing it, I will write it all down first, walk away for a bit and then re-read it and edit if need be.
@gemini_rose (16264)
23 Apr 08
I still prefer the old pen and paper method, I do the same as you too, if I am upset I write it all down and then will often leave it a day or two before re reading it and it is weird how I have written things that I do not remember, and that everything makes perfect sense too.
@yona06 (585)
• Indonesia
23 Apr 08
I am exactly like you. Definitely better through fingertips. I think it's because that way I can take my time in thinking what I'm about to say and there's also the benefit of editing :) this makes me more calm, unlike when I'm speaking directly to a person I tend to get nervous and distracted.
• India
23 Apr 08
While talking there is a possibility of loss od our concentration on the subject what we speak whereas while we write or type, I feel, we can explain the subject more clearly than talkng. I think the difference arrives is from that while typing we are not speaking with the person without seeing his face. That lead us to tell whatever is there in our mind. While talking face to face the interpertation from other one may disturb our way of communication. One thing is clear we can communicate a subject to a person MORE clearly in writing than speaks face to face.
@taylorzj (32)
• China
24 Apr 08
better to do than to say .i will be noverous,though i prepare much.
23 Apr 08
I'm definately a fingertips kinda gal. I had quite a few things going on in my life a while ago that i found really hard to spit out in words, instead i started writing a diary, posting blogs, writing poetry and letters that seemed to help clear my head. When i try and use words, i either stumble over my words, or what i'm trying to say comes out all worng and i end up getting more upset, and defensive...which it turn doesn't help when trying to communicate what i feel to someone else without just sounding kinda mean:S Words just flow so much better when you've got time to write them down and read them back to yourself, so you can see how it may sound to someone else. Having said that, i'm working on trying to talk more through speech when i have something important to say, sometimes things come across more powerfully in speech.
@gemini_rose (16264)
23 Apr 08
I am the same, it does make things clearer to see it all written down in front of you, I need to be able to speak more about personal things, but why is it that the words never come out how you want them to from your mouth!!!
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
23 Apr 08
It is much easier for me to express my feelings through writing that is why I guess that I am a freelance writer and an author of two books. I pour my heart out in my work but rarely tell people in person that I am hurting.
@infoguy (210)
• India
23 Apr 08
I find my fingertips to be the most expressive than what i say..Either it be something thats happy or sad....When the conversation is there i find it difficult to express all i feel sometimes i hestitate to speak out openly ...My fingertips give me more courage freedom to express what ever i feel.
@mssnow (9484)
• United States
23 Apr 08
I can type much better than i talk because most of the time i start rambling when i talk or saying the same thing in a different way. When i type i can go back and correct any errors before anyone sees what i did. lol
• United States
23 Apr 08
Although I am getting better at speaking my mind, I have always been able to express my feelings better through writing or typing them, rather than to talk about them. When I write, I have a chance to read it back to myself, and make sure what I want to say is coming out right and can't be mistaken. I am a scatterbrain, so when I try to say what I feel, I end up jumping around from point to point, sometimes leaving things out that I feel are important, and screwing up the message altogether. I have found that a lot of this has to do with confidence in self, so I have tried to become more verbal with my feelings, and it works. I don't hop around or leave things out so much anymore. I still have a long way to go, but hopefully one day I will be as well spoken as I am written.
• United States
23 Apr 08
I find it easier to speak what I feel and have on my mind Cause without being able to speak to someone it comes in the way sometimes with relationships let me tell my exsperance well I had a guy I was dating and all he could do was write me letters on how he feels about something that bothered him and I found it really bothering because it just wasnt the same as talking it through its like I get this letter and have so much of a respond back that I got more frustrated trying to have to write back and respond to his whole letter I find it much easier with the comuntication of speaking how you feel its just a good feeling to be able to just come out and say how you feel and your opion rather than bodle it up inside but when I was single I found the hurt and pain easier to write on paper Cause I didnt have anyone to confide in but when I had a relationship I was able to but everyone different and I feel if your in a relationship its best to speak how you feel rather than write it. well hope everything works out in your life on how to exspress yourself to the person you love and can confide in.
@qt_dsy (85)
• Philippines
23 Apr 08
im better with my fingers. everything i say through my hands had been thought carefully. unlike with words, i just say whatever comes up. and sometimes i regret it. and with fingertips i can express more clearly what i have in mind, i can explain more my ideas and opinions.