I also despise talking on the phone to almost everyone- with the sole exception being my mother, who has Parkinson's. One of her symptoms is when her meds ARE working she is plagued by involuntary movement (too much of that initiation dopamine- I wish she could loan me some!), and I become so distracted by her movements I am almost paralyzed with it. On the phone, however, I can't see her literally twirling her entire body in circles on the floor, therefore we can have the deeply emotional and spiritual conversations that we both so love. Everyone else, however, especially any calls of an "official" nature (making appointments, calling my dr or psychiatrist, boss, pharmacy, insurance company, even friends!) send me into a physical panic and a mental coma- just this morning I became physically ill and had an anxiety attack for the next 45 minutes when I tried to call my insurance company to check on the status of the $1300 reimbursement check they owe me that is overdue (and that I desperately need!). for a few days each month I take a 'medication vacation' from my Adderall because if I don't take a 'vacation' it only remains effective for a wk or two : ( During these 'vacations' phone calls (as well as almost everything else) becomes an impossibility for me, unless I am prepared to try to hold a coherent conversation whilst having a panic attack. Also, every friend and family member I know who has adult ADHD has the same 'phobia' of the phone! I never knew this until I was diagnosed and began 'confessing' some of my symptoms to friends and family (i.e. "You know how I never return your calls and always text instead? there's a reason for that...") and was shocked to learn that several of them also secretly suffer from ADHD and have similar (if not identical!) obstacles in their daily functioning! which of course has led me to wonder; why are we so ashamed of these things? why do we think we should be able to just 'get over' a debilitating mental illness?