I communicate like a 14 year old
And I’m ok with that. I simply love chatting, not necessarily in person or on the phone, but electronically; I respond to messages, tweets, text messages, DM’s, @’s, mentions, and emails lightening fast.
To most this is seems weird and I know that, in some sort of way, they deem me needy because of it. I generally think it’s because they simply don't understand what it’s like to grow up having nearly all your communication facilitated through typing - This is how I talk, nothing more, nothing less. I type fast. I think fast. I respond fast. I give my opinion fast. I fire off electro-missives like a fucking machine gun. What bothers the piss out of me is that something in human nature appears to look down on humans that are almost always “available” like myself. I am sure it’s some instinctual thing based in the fact that the more “powerful” of our species were most likely preoccupied by bigger things, and therefore “unavailable,” but more desirable... And no place else is this more exemplified than dating in high-school and into college where It was practically mandatory NOT to contact someone you were interested in for some odd period of time...Which, if you haven't realized, was just plain torture for a human like me. OH, but it gets even better, once you get into the “working” world, if you respond to emails too quickly, people tend believe that the quality of your work is trash because it’s done QUICKLY. This is so completely backwards!!!!! So you’re telling me, If I recognize my feelings for someone and tell them about it too soon, than I’m fucked for my feels. Then, if I do an exemplary job on my tasks and my vocation promptly, I’m scrutinized for not “giving it enough thought.” Quickly does NOT mean hastily you asshats.
That is why I don't work in an office anymore and I’ve finally found a place to exist where prompt communication is a boon to my career. I still run into the occasional time where I can SENSE being judged by someone because of how easily I am able to be gotten a hold of - I mean, even that phrase needs to die, “get ahold of” pfft. I just wish there was someway to convey the fact that I simply, unpretentiously, unaffectedly, enjoy chatting and exchanging information.