1. I'm good at expressing myself in person about happy, positive, logical, scientific and empathetic topics. I try to be a good listener in person too and give people the space and time to say what they need or want to say.

I struggle sometimes to express myself well in written form and rely on emoticons to show people that I'm being friendly because I don't always have the right words.

2. I often like communicating with people in a once off setting because then it doesn't matter if you're being 'weird' - they have no context or reference for your behaviour. 

Commuicating in close relationships is something I've worked hard on because it's really easy to internalise stuff rather than 'put it out there'.

I have a huge amount of trouble with confrontation and end up having to go away and have a meltdown afterwards.