Comment by y1n0
3 hours ago
Honestly I find it distracting when people do the mmmhmm thing. I don’t find it encouraging or helpful or whatever.
3 hours ago
Honestly I find it distracting when people do the mmmhmm thing. I don’t find it encouraging or helpful or whatever.
When I go into listening node, I listen. Actively and intensely.
Apparently it unnerves people. My wife coaches me to give occasional Yes,Go On, or UhHuh. But it's a conscious, learned, active mechanism for me. Intuitively, I'll tell you if we've weered off my desired conversation path and I'd ask the same courtesy. I've learned very late in life it's apparently an autism thing. Either way, I don't seek mmms and umms in real live people and I especially don't need fake ones in a machine :)