Ode To The Clothes Dryer
 

Dryer oh dryer
Why dost thou vex me so?
Time dry or sensor dry
How do I know?

I stand and stare at you
Befuddled by your complex simplicity
Dryer oh dryer,
Why dost thou vex me so?

Funny...I look at my washer and dryer like that. :)

You should put that up above in our new stickie for chat and games.

Jace

Do any of you guys get dizzy when the washer or dryer are on? I can only run them when I'm headed out to run errands. I get dizzy and nauseous, plus I have a terrible headache, when I run the machines. It might be because I live in a small place, but I feel like my whole home is shaking.

If I stay in the laundry room it's a NO NO to look at either while it runs. I leave quickly when I do throw in a load. I can't take the noise.

Jace

Aside from the noise, the washer and dryer, I can handle.

I am, however, completely freaked out by the telephone. Just thinking about using it makes me anxious. I really can't talk to someone, in real time, when I can't see them. Without someone to focus on, I can't block out all the noises and distractions around me.

I also have a tendency to, unknowingly, repeat myself. Talking face to face, I can pick up visual clues that the person has heard it before - and stop. On the phone, there's no body language to help. People are too polite to say anything, so I worry that I'm boring the heck out of them.

I prefer to communicate by email. That way I can proof my comments and people don't have to put up with (or judge me by) my repetition, apraxia and aphasia.

Text or email. It must be extremely important for me to use the phone and then it's on speaker which wears me down.

Glad I'm not alone on this. My family thinks it's weird.

I'm your 1,000th post. Let's be weirdies together! Took my mom a longggggg time to get it too. Now she rarely calls me and I can't follow her when she does.

She has learned to text quite well. :winky:

Jace

I also have to use the speaker to talk on the phone. For some reason, I can no longer handle holding it up to my ear anymore. It's just too much for me. It's almost physically painful.

I also get very anxious when people want to talk on the phone. I have tried explaining it to people, but they don't get it. I have two people who I can handle talking on the phone with, but they are both really nice people who I have known for a long time, and neither of them talk for more than 5 or 10 minutes. Other people want to talk for hours. It overwhelms me and leaves me exhausted, with a pounding headache.

Oh, and I can't multitask anymore. There is no chance of me ever answering the phone while I'm driving, even though I used to yap on it all the time when I was on the road.