Communication competence is a very important characteristic of a person because it most always means that you will be more successful at relationships with others. After learning about the traits that a good communicator should posses I discovered that I lack several. For instance, when I was in high school there was this guy that you never could tell if he was joking or being serious. I usually choose not to talk to people like this, but he was in my clique of friends so I did occasionally. My senior year I had my first period class with him and I hadn't got to know him until the summer before. We had become good friends, but when he got used to the teacher and the other students he started with a side that I had never seen before. He constantly made rude comments about me and told jokes loud enough so that the entire class could hear. My feelings were really hurt at first but then I realized that he just wanted attention, so I chose to ignore him. I lacked the confidence to stand up for myself because I was afraid of humiliating myself even more than he already did. By taking this course I would like to enhance my ability to respond to situations like this one. Everyone has the ability to learn communication competence and I would like to strengthen my skills in this class so that I can provide responses to people that have different personalities.
             Another thing is that I am a very sensitive person especially when it is someone that I truly care about that hurts me. For example, when my boyfriend and I have a conversation sometimes he says things that I take the wrong way. Most of the time he's not even saying them to hurt my feelings, its just that I don't understand what he means. I think a lot of it is that I don't think after he says things to me and I automatically assume that he doesn't mean well. I have sensitivity to these types of things because I can'
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