#The Ouija Experiment

[tofuingho]

Imagine a world where Bruce got really into the occult when his parents died.

He did all the things. He bought a Ouija board. He went to psychics. He held seances.

He never did talk to his parents.

But, sometimes he wasn't as careful as he should have been. Once, just once, when a Ouija session once again failed to reach his parents, he left the planchet on the board and never said goodbye.

How long would it take for something to come through? How long would it take for Bruce and Alfred to notice? The manor is so very big and it has so many lovely dark places to hide.

If things get moved around, who would really notice? Especially once Bruce adopts the Robins. So many children causing so much chaos at all hours of the day and night.

No, I expect that no one would notice until Duke moves in. But even then, who knows how long it would take him to notice one big humanoid shape hidden away in some long forgotten attic room.

[beatingtheouijaboardallegations]

wish there are less people invested in one single narrative of nonspeaking / nonverbal identity.

feels like there many different “traditions” or something of nonverbal nonspeaking activists and each small community all says same thing, same origin story same definitions same words same talk points. and I understand this because we are all autistic! we are all echolalic we all echo language and ideas from the community we surround selves with. but find it really hard when echo words becomes ddogma becomes thing you can’t say differently and just assume everyone thinks same thing or else not really in group.

(going to try to use “nonspeaking” for first community and “nonverbal” for second community because that’s what each one of these communities usually prefer. language hard so sorry if don’t do this consistent.)

like if I go to one of I-ASC (international association on spell to communicate) conference or one of their neuro lyrical events online. as a nonspeaker since birth who does have experience of “learned language without having speech”, of people assume don’t understand anything until finally found way to express self that world understands, and people still doubt am really the one saying this. in some ways relate to these people much much more than people on here who mostly became nonspeaking later in life and have very different upbringing not raised as a person with a DD not grow up without speech. places like the I-ASC and the Spellers community and impAACt and local meet up group for nonspeakers feel like family to me, feel like my people who move and talk and live like me.

but. there things in these community that are very black and white. that just can’t relate to. don’t relate to mantra of “speech is motor, language cognitive” for example. or “it’s not about don’t understand or about I don’t want to, it’s about can’t make body do it.”. because my motor issues interact with language processing interact with cognitive stuff not able to neat separate. yes AAC is freedom but I still have to make a lot of compromises to express self with words. have to leave out a lot or (more often) add a lot unnecessary stuff because there things that brain stuck that just can’t say in a way people will understand.

think this is true for lots more nonspeaking people than organizations like these (which were started + run by speaking people and communication & regulation partners and SLPs) say is true. a lot of nonspeaking people in these communities encouraged by speaking people in movement to focus emphasize on “we don’t have intellectual disability we can communicate with words just as good as you can, the motor problems is all that there we don’t have any language problems .” because this is what parents and speaking autistics and well meaning allies/communication partners think is important. they think the way to value us and to say we feel and think and know and should have rights (which we should!) is to distance distance distance far far away from any associate with intellectual disabilities with language disabilities with cognitive disabilities with process differently.

so as long as can be acceptable enough nonspeaker to them they support. which does not feel like support. nonspeaking doesn’t mean non thinking but intellectual disability and language deficit and cognitive disability doesn’t mean non thinking too. and a lot of people in these communities do have more complicated relationships with language but are told by speaking people in these communities to not talk about that only talk about motor stuff or connect everything back to motor stuff. which doesn’t feel like support. feels like flatten make easier make more convenient.

and then when I go on tumblr and see the nonverbal people speaking out here. i started out not on social media mostly in offline AAC and speller advocacy and someone told me there was good community of autistics with good range of support needs on tumblr so I joined. and do find bigger range of autistic and nonverbal nonspeaking experiences able to talk about here. able to talk about mental illness & psychosis & dissociation (which even nonspeaking advocacy communities assume nonspeaking people don’t have these problems or not capable). able to talk about “challenging” behaviors that so so stigmatized. able to talk about language and cognitive stuff. able to talk about gender and queerness without be policed (a lot of professionals and communication support people in nonspeaking advocacy are weird conservative and don’t think can know our genders / sexualities even though always talk about presume competence. it weird.) just saw beautiful post about nonverbal trans experience with gender that I loved. really like that people with intellectual disability getting heard, that we challenge expectation to have “proper” writen language. speech therapy and even learning how to use AAC, learning how to use letterboard etc was always about correct every mistake, about fade prompting, about use grammar properly so other people think competent. and have been able to let go of that on here because the language norms are so so different.

but at the same time I feel like there lot more stuff that not useful. lot of focus on right words to say, a lot of calling out other blogs, a lot of trolls, lot of drama that really doesn’t exist in real life nonspeaking community. like frustrated when go in nonverbal or nonspeaking tag and most posts not about nonverbal people human rights or experience, but about words. specific about people saying go nonverbal, someone trying to say it’s good or someone trying to say it’s bad. every other post about someone ask for right word to say instead of “go nonverbal”, or list of other words to say. or people asking whether or not they’re nonverbal or semiverbal or lose speech. and even within nonverbal community on here lot more talk about words than about justice. or even about lived experience of be nonverbal. people forget that real world outside tumblr tags exist sometimes. that there people living without communication, people being deny communication, people in institutions, people without resources. and that there are ways to change that and to self advocate besides changing what word you call yourself.

not saying words not important. yes it is annoying and bad when people talk abouit going nonverbal and forget that we exist. yes am grateful to people who decide to change what word they call themself to not erase us. but frustrated with how there not really conversation, one opinion just take as The Nonverbal Opinion, just like how it is in offline nonspeaking / speller community.

not seem like these communities are interacting, are compare notes on experience are combine to synthesize into something better. into what community could be. community that leaves no one behind. community that doesn’t claim to speak for everyone, doesn’t claim account for all experiences but still says all nonspeakers exist and all deserve rights. doesn’t tell anyone “don’t talk about your experience with X because it doesn’t fit what we want to tell the world that nonspeaking people are like.” where everything able to be talked about without it ever make less true that all of us need respect and rights more than any one word / idea.

curious if anyone have ideas for how to make this community.

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

this enormous planchette works great on a coffee-table sized ouija board lmao

[v1rtualv4mp]

The urge to provoke ghosts just to see if they're real or not

[excelsior9173]

went ghost hunting for the first time! finally got to use my dowsing rods and holy crow was that a neat experience!

i could tell when there was someone on the other end using the rods to communicate. it was like a pressure through them, i could feel the effort of them trying to move the rods.

talked to a child spirit who pinched my sister, though it could’ve been anything as we couldn’t verify it’s answers. it said it had a headstone and that it was a girl, but when we told her to lead us to her grave she took us to an infant boy’s resting place.

then there was the pioneer woman “b”. we couldn’t get her full name because we only had the rods and a pendulum. my mom is fairly certain some illness of the lungs is what killed “b”, as my mom felt pressure and pain through her chest while we spoke to the spirit. “b” didn’t have a headstone and told us as much, but she also couldn’t remember how long she’d been buried or where she had been laid to rest. she told us she was at peace though! we told her we would come back with more equipment to have a proper conversation with her, she was quite nice!

i can’t wait to get out and go again. i’ve always loved cemeteries and now getting to communicate i love them even more

[bendiciones444]

had an interesting first experience with a ouija! i did my protections, my prayers, and set up my space with lots of candles and protective herbs. it was a slow session at first and i was about ready to give up. but this is where i’m not sure if it was me moving it or my ancestors that i had asked to communicate with me. i felt a tug, but more intuitively than physically. physically i felt a slight movement pull towards the letters, but i felt calm and not afraid. it was interesting, since the only question they answered was do you love me? and they spelled LOVE :)

[polter-heist]

Please use a separate tag for DPxDC. I’m begging you I literally don’t give a flying fuck about dc I just want Danny Phantom content and I don’t want to wade through a bunch of DPxDC to find the occasional non-crossover post I’m fucking dying at the point

hey, anon, there's a simple fix, actually. block the #dp x dc tag I have and the #dc tag. because those are the tags I use. I make sure to tag things appropriately all the time on this page. you can use the search bar at the top of my page if you're on mobile like me and type in #dp. you will find all of my Danny Phantom posts. I have no prompts for just dp, so you're not gonna find anything from me, but you will find some thing's I've reblogged

now, if you're referring to the fact that I've tagged a few posts as "Danny Phantom", then once again, I bring to you my favourite function on tumblr. the fact that you can block tags. you'll see a lot of blocked out posts, sure, but it keeps like everyone happy.

I understand the dying part too it gets very frustrating looking through the dp tag sometimes and seeing Batman's face when I want to see Jazz. it gets annoying very quickly.

[dinkdonkjoolian]

went to a gas station for a drink and a pack today and the guy in front of me cant get his shit rung up, thing starts beeping like crazy. so the guy leaves eventually and now my monster wont scan. im like anxious asl so i don't even care about the time because my anxiety is kicking my ass and thats my main priority. poor guy at the register keeps apologizing bc he gonna have to reset the thing and the lady helping him's like "you done broke it!" and hes like "i aint break shit" and its your average stoner to old southern lady who used to work here type back and forth. theres no moral or punchline i just thought it was an odd experience and also that the guy was very sweet.

[dollgutted]

okay so if midwestern emos have, well, midwest emo, what do northern emos jam to that's is "of their region"? i have it on good authority as a southerner who was (and may still be considered) emo that southern gothic/murderfolk is our jam, it resonates yanno, but what do northerners have? genuine question; the only answer i will reject is base emo music (mcr for example) bc listen, bub, we *all* listened to that shit. that's the catchall for emos, we also listened to that shit. i'm talkin' shit that was exclusive to the area, yanno, like where i'm from down south we had 'lil no-name bands with handmade flyers that would do shitty concerts at bonfires in the woods singin' about death and depression and no one lovin' you to the tune of a fucking banjo. like. that is of its area, that's the VIBE, ya feel me? is the vibe similar? drastically different? northerners, give me ur legends bros, i am curious.

[bedazzled-ouija-board]

reverse psychology is real because whenever someone tells me not to do something I want to do it even more, but when they gently remind me to do a thing I refuse out of spite because I didn't need reminding!

[zombombie]

Your brain is just an Ouija board and every single experience you've had is a hand guiding it to the next response

[ghoulishmorbidchick-blog]

Book Review

Stalked by the Zozo Demon-Celina Summers & Tim Wood

[argocitycosplay]

Ouija Experiment

The Ouija experiment is set up as a found footage film… Where a group of young people head out to afriends cabin to play with the board, and document it for thier YouTube channel. The leader is actually filming the event over at the host’s objections… Starting off by hiding a camera and then when things start to pick up actually grabbing the camera to document stuff. The board certainly tells…

[corvidaedream]

i cant sleep so instead im watching some firefighters put out a car that smashed into two other cars on my street and then caught fire

[ectoamerican]

@brutalscaled asked: ☕ - How do you drink your tea? And your coffee? 😋 - Is there something you loved eating in your childhood, but are not very fond of anymore now? Why?

Food questions for the Muse(s) || accepting!

☕ "Actually I don't mind drinking tea or coffee without anything added to them. As for how I prefer my drinks when given the option? I like both very sweet. Bubble tea and like- iced frappes for example are my usual picks."

😋 "Not really. It's more the opposite. I hated my parents' cooking in general when I was younger. But I've come around to being more okay with fighting dinner, occasionally."

[fatherless-behavior-prompts]

HALLOWMEME

send one in for a Halloween starter! 

“ What are you going to be for Halloween? “ 

“ Suggesting going into a graveyard in the middle of the night is exactly how countless horror movies start. “

“ I am not going to remake no ‘children of the corn’ shit with you. Go into that corn maze on your own. “

“ Look at how big that pumpkin is! “ 

“ Lets go on a hay ride! “ 

“ Do we really have to dress up in matching outfits? “ 

“ Yes we have to dress up in matching outfits! “ 

“ Dunking for apples is a basic part of the Halloween party experience. You gotta do it. “ 

“ Run like Jason is chasing you!!! “ 

“ What do you mean I’m too old for trick - or - treating? “ 

“ Stop eating all the candy! “ 

“ Don’t go to that house, they give out raisins. “ 

“ Who gives out dental floss on Halloween? “ 

“ I’m freezing my balls off out here! “ 

“ I don’t know why they think this particular job needs to have a sexy version ... “ 

“ Damn I make this costume look good! “ 

“ ... That’s some pretty realistic makeup ... are you sure you’re not hurt? “ 

“ Let’s stay in and watch scary movies instead “ 

“ I remember the haunted house being a lot more scary than this. “ 

“ I don’t really like scary things ... can we just do the fun cute things for Halloween instead? “ 

“ Oh god there’s another clown... “ 

“ We should go trick - or - treating in Colorado ... I bet they hand out weed! “ 

“ Put that Ouija Board down right now or so help me! “ 

“ Trying to talk to spirits is about the last thing on my list of fun things to do tonight. “

“ If you wake up haunted its not my fault. “ 

“ That’s not funny! You scared me half to death! “ 

“  The lesson of Halloween is that pretending to be something you're not will lead to a sweet reward. “