@autism101 @actuallyautistic This is me. Many doctors, therapists and public offices can *only* be contacted via phone 😓
Takes me often days, weeks or even months to do a phone call.

It's okay when someone calls me, even though I'd always prefer written communication.

@autism101 @actuallyautistic Latest example:

I need a minor surgery. Have talked about it with my doc. Need to contact hospital. Have thought about it for months. Now I checked out their website, found the department and were pleased they offered an email address 🤩
Sent an email, explained situation and asked for information. Their reply: "Please call us. Thank you!"

Why, just why? Why don't they have an FAQ sheet and some general info they can send?
😓

@Sci_Fi_FanGirl

I think some people cannot think about what they should say unless someone else asks a bunch of questions, live.

Not sure if that's the case here.

And about email being *always* better. In theory, yes. In practice, it depends on the person at the other end. I ended up ditching Johns Hopkins and going to UMMC for my stem cell transplant (cancer treatment) because the people responsible for handling my emails lied to me about not receiving my emails.  

@autism101 @actuallyautistic

@yourautisticlife @autism101 @actuallyautistic So sorry to hear about people lying to you not receiving your mails while you were going through such hard times 😔

Interesting what you said about ppl needing to hear specific questions live.

As the summer break (school) has already been 4.5 weeks I'm currently high in spoons and managed to call them. The info I got was so basic that they could have put it on their website. Writing it down for me would've taken ~2min (less than the call) 🤷

@Sci_Fi_FanGirl

They did not realize that I'd be able to read through the lies. They were insisting that the emails were just not delivered. Here's the deal, and the bit that they did not know: I've managed an email server for a long time. It is true that in theory an email could not be delivered, and you wouldn't know about it. However, a correctly configured email server will tell the sender that the email they were trying to send was not delivered. (You get a message from the mail daemon telling you that it was not delivered, for such and such reason.)

(The "you" in what follows is the doctor in question.)

Conclusion: when you tell me that the emails were not delivered and that I did not get an error on my end, you are implying that the people responsible for email servers at Johns Hopkins don't know how to configure a server correctly.

What's more plausible? That you are lying to me, or that the engineers at Johns Hopkins are unable to find their own rear end with both hands?

I'm going to bet on the engineers, and against you.

And it was not just one email they were ignoring but multiple. No one else at Johns Hopkins was ignoring my emails. So... again... what's more plausible?

@autism101 @actuallyautistic

@yourautisticlife @autism101

Ugh how annoying 😓

I guess people just assume you know they're talking BS, but as a decent member of society you will avoid any confrontation and not call them out on their BS. Seems to be some unwritten rule.