#difficulty verbalizing

[bathask]

WAISは凸凸凹凹の文系国立大学卒で言語の遅れとは無関係に自閉症スペクトラム喋り苦手,言語化し言葉出すの苦心で特にカモフラージュ擬態化のマルチタスク重なるとパニック。ASDの過緊張高不安だと吃音も。大人の発達障害アスペルガー/自閉スペクトラム症の就労支援A型作業所で黄色の花咲き始める柊南天

[nemo-bros]

so sos so tired of hearing "go nonverbal/nonspeaking" or "become nonverbal/nonspeaking from intense emotion/stress" for speech loss episode!

so so so tired of people claiming gatekeep "nonverbal" or "nonspeaking" and is actually okay to use!

so so so tired of hearing fully speaking people or people who only have infrequent speech loss episode and no other impairment say "I'm semiverbal I'm nonverbal I'm nonspeaking"!

so tired of abled people deciding they fit in with us because they get too tired and dont feel like talking sometimes! not the same thing!

so so so tired of hearing "majority verbal" "choice verbal" "demiverbal" you might have speech loss episode but that do not mean need special identify label to describe speech loss episode. you not the same as us!

semiverbal not the same as nonverbal/nonspeaking! we still can't fully understand what nonverbal/nonspeaking people go through!!

please stop!!!

[jett-roid]

Hemiverbalflux. (Coined 15/7/2024)

Hemiverbalflux is a label I created because I wanted a specific term that describes my experience. It uses the word hemi (meaning half, same as semi & demi) and combines it with verbalflux. It means:

When your verbality fluctuates in intensity but is always, constantly, within the borders of semiverbal and demiverbal

Struggling with speech but the difficulty, length and frequency fluctuate. Sometimes having major difficulty and being unable to form coherent sentences to sometimes being able to speak well; Sometimes being unable to speak without extreme difficulty for weeks, to being able to speak reliably for a few days

Verbal shutdowns fluctuate in frequency, length & intensity. Sometimes being a few times a month, to being a few times a week, to being every day; Sometimes lasting for a few minutes, to lasting a few hours, to lasting days

Fluctuations can be random or can have causes such as stress

Fluctuations can happen often or over long periods of time

Flag based on these

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Hemiverbal can also be used on its own as a separate term to mean bordering/being somewhere between semiverbal and demiverbal. I may make a post in the future officially coining the term but I don't plan to do that soon. I also didn't make a flag for just hemiverbal as it's honestly just a little bonus from making hemiverbalflux.

Definitions of demiverbal and semiverbal (that I use) to show what hemiverbalflux fluctuates between.

Demiverbal: ⤵️

Can reliably speak most of the day for most days of the week

Verbal shutdowns happen anywhere from a few times a week to a few times a month, possibly for no apparent reason

May experience some level of difficulty with mouth words, anywhere between slight difficulty only a little of the time to half the time

Semiverbal: ⤵️

Only being able to speak in specific circumstances OR showing moderate to extreme difficulty with speaking most/all of the time

[cattistic]

I've looked at the verbal terms and i wonder if it's okay for someone to identify with not just one, but two or more terms. I, myself, have identified with two terms.

Semi verbal - Because i have moderate difficulty with pronouncing shit right and speaking slowly enough so that everyone can understand what i'm saying. I also tend to only talk, and talk a lot, while i'm playing Splatoon 3 and other things.

Choice verbal - Because i only want to speak during those times that i play Splatoon 3 and only speak with people i'm very familiar with. It might also be because i can deal with pain while i speak and i hate pain, not sure if it's due to my pressured speech or another disability though.

I don't know anyone else who has chosen to identify with two terms and i think it's totally possible.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

(genderly) chill as hell if i was only ever glimpsed / detected like this

[skoulsons]

The last tale of Ghost just took me almost an hour to beat

[eats-the-stars]

just had a very transparent reminder that practice does create improvement. my sister asked me to make a sign language guide for my 5yo nephew's schoolteachers. and maybe i coulda printed a buncha shit out, but my nephew is 5 and gives some of his signs a personal flair that the internet diagrams just doesn't capture. so i spent a whole day hand-drawing his most commonly used signs, and buddy, if you've ever struggled to draw hands, you can imagine the difficulty there is in drawing hands signing shit. point is, though, i was given the opportunity to mark the clear different in the quality of my hand-drawing skills from the first sign card to the last.

so yeah if you want to rapidly improve your hand-drawing skills, try to hand-draw a sign language guide using pictures of your own hands forming the signs, and internet sign drawings that range from excellent to complete dog-shit (no shade tho I almost cried trying to draw the sign for "friends" that one's a real bitch.

[pumpkinspicedmochi]

Heyo welcomee

made this blog for anything that doesn't fit on my age regression blog mostly just going to talk about my special interests , disability related things mostly but who knows!

I'm mochi and here are some thing about me:

🌻I'm semi specking and get tired/overwhelmed from talking a lot

🌻I struggle to type when overwhelmed but also sometimes I'm either regressed (involuntarily) or its just more comfortable and feels right

🌻If I don't respond I'm not ignoring you , I'm probably overwhelmed or busy

🌻I'm autistic and medium support needs, also people are very confusing to me to be honest (especially neurotypicals) , Sometimes I can't understand my own emotions and get overwhelmed from strong emotions (and disappear until I can feel better), Might struggle to understand what you mean and ask for it to be explained in a different way (especially if no tone indicator is included , don't be rude please)

🌻I have wonky spine / chronic back pain

🌻I'm an artist and writer! I'll probably post at some point about an art account and any stories that get finished

🌻I may sometimes struggle to advocate for myself

Use tone indicators/tone tags with me please

#mochi semi verbal talk (when I talk of being semi verbal)

#mochi answers (when I answer sent in questions)

age regression account!: @mochiipudding

art account: @overlysweetmochi

Some of my big special interests that I recognize as that are:

the backrooms

scp foundations/scps (my fave is scp 049! and a few others)

scream (the movies)

Dni: Anti age regression, Racist , homophobes/queerphobe, ableists, if anti furry etc

doesn't exactly matter because I'll block if I don't like it ya know

well anywayss thankies for reading have an awesome dayy

wanna help out? here how:

[archivedolon]

aphelios using emojis to communicate rather than typing out words ;___; he finds it difficult to say exactly how he’s feeling, especially when so many people are watching the debut of their band. he’s a perfectionist to a fault and doesn’t like for there to be any room for miscommunication or for his words to be construed any other way. it’s much harder for him to put his own thoughts into words, whereas songwriting, his emotions flow freely. as always, though, he’s a bit of a meticulous soul and holds himself to an extremely high standard. his anxiety is something that he’s learning to manage but with so much riding on the success of their group, not just himself but everyone else’s careers that were revitalized by their joint efforts, he’s rather not put himself in a position that could cost the others. so emojis he stays with for the time being. alune likes how they look, anyways.

[nokingsonlyfooles]

No dodgeball, please

I have verbal difficulties. Not a stutter, like Biden. I "lose my words," as I am supposed to say, to be nice, but I don't always say it like that because I lose my words. It takes extra effort for me to communicate the way people expect me to communicate, and when I can't, and I hear myself making more and more pauses and errors, it snowballs.

This, the way the media is covering this, is not fucking fair. Everyone trips over language sometimes, and people who have to work harder to talk will do it more. Period. Now, that can't have been all that was going on at the debate, but every last misstep is not another indication the man is going senile.

HOWEVER, the media blitz that Biden is spearheading to stave off rumours of senility would take a toll from anyone - let alone someone who has to work extra hard to talk. His campaign team are requiring him to talk, and talk, and fly somewhere, and talk some more, and then everyone combs over what he said wrong, and they report it or make fun of it or tell him he has to stop screwing up like that.

If this doesn't stop, and I don't see any indication it will, he is going to melt down again, BADLY, like at the debate. If you need extra energy to talk, and you don't have that energy because you've been talking constantly, you will not be able to talk anymore - until you have a long, stress-free break. That's just how it works, no matter what age you are. But I must assume that if you are 81, you might need a little more time.

If we're lucky, he'll break down on camera before he gets the nomination. If this really is the worst timeline, it'll be after. And all the donors and reporters and supporters who already flipped out and felt used and betrayed because they got blindsided will say, "Fuck this shit. I'm out." Their credibility is worth more than this election, they're all planning to be here for the next one.

I don't wish that on anyone, but simple honesty like, "Hey, I need to slow down" or, God forbid, "I need some accommodations" is not an option for the narrative Team Biden has chosen. The debate went badly, but whatever the reason, it's not important and it won't happen again. They don't seem to have any idea that they're making sure it WILL happen again.

Politically, I don't know how in the hell you come back from "Sometimes I can't communicate." I can't even manage it socially, but I am not out there trying to be a politician or saying I'm the only man who can beat Trump. I decided not to hold an entire country hostage to soothe my own ego - as one should. Nobody involved in this is showing any basic competence or treating human beings like living creatures who need care. They just want to win. A superhuman powerhouse would look super electable, wouldn't he?

I dunno. I'm not looking for an ubermensch, myself, but they're not interested in my vote. I don't want Apollo's dodgeball... I DO NOT WANT THE DODGEBALL. I want to be scrolling through my back posts years from now and go, "Ha-ha, how silly I was." But... I think they're gonna push him until he breaks. And then I dunno what's gonna happen.

[tatck]

You have SUCH a skill for making comic’s!! Like I am blown away at how smooth the panels are, how good the dialogue is and of course the amazing art - characters and backgrounds included !! I just want to ask, do you have any ambition of doing this as a career at some point? Or is this just strictly a hobby type thing ?

Babahsbh Validation! Thank you!

Right now, i consider it a hobby thing. Adding money to the equation changes so much. But I'm not against the idea, and i would consider it as a way to make money if I had to. Being independent sounds very nice and i want to work towards that somehow.

[nld-as-insights]

Should I Get My Child Evaluated for Autism, ADHD, or a Learning Disorder, and Should I Talk to Them About it?

Some parents do not want to get their neurodivergent child evaluated for a diagnosis or they avoid talking to their child about the diagnosis because they don’t want to label, pathologize, or stigmatize their child. I appreciate this concern because diagnoses can be too focused on the negative, and a negative lens is stigmatizing. At the same time, acting hush-hush about a diagnosis is also stigmatizing. Therefore, I suggest getting your child evaluated and talking to them about it, but doing so in a non-stigmatizing way. On this blog I share non-stigmatizing ways to talk about diagnoses.

Thanks,

                 Julia

[jett-roid]

Infantilisation sucks. I hate it so much.

I am not a child. No matter how much I may act like one, think like one, or have needs like one, I am not and never again will be a child. I have more life experiences than a child does and that is important.

Sometimes I may need to be treated similarly (pt: similarly) to a child but I never want to be treated like I AM a child.

I do not want you to talk to me in such a babying voice but I appreciate that you are trying to be considerate of me even if you're going about it wrong.

I do not want to be treated like I'm some "innocent little baby" because I am not. I can make and understand sexual jokes (sometimes because i have trouble processing jokes and sarcasm). I can engage in and enjoy sexual content. I can also take part in sexual activities/interactions (though I won't because I'm ace).

The only people I'm OK with treating me similarly to a child are my parents because they're not actually treating me like a child, they're treating me like the autistic teen that I am who happens to have needs similar to a child's.

The difference between being infantilised and how my parents treat me is that; my parents acknowledge my autism, they acknowledge (most of) my needs, they acknowledge my age, they acknowledge my life experiences, and they acknowledge that how I need to be treated changes; people who infantilise me don't acknowledge any of that and treat and think of me as though I am a child as if I'm "less-than".

Also, the fact that being treated like a child is like being treated as "less than" is horrible. Children are people too and deserve to be treated as such.

Children are humans, they are people. Disabled people are also humans, we are people, but we are also not children (except for the ones that are actually children). Disabled people should not be treated as children unless they are ok with it or want to be treated that way. (Disabled people that need to be treated as or similar to a child are completely valid of course)

[cattistic]

I really think using AAC software of any kind might be able to help me communicate during shutdowns or meltdowns and could also help me with talking to others more.

In my IEP, they say i need to improve my expressive language skills during social interactions. They're saying that i don't express my feelings, needs or wants to people during social interactions and they say those struggles are why i lash out at friends sometimes.

They also say i really struggle with avoiding defiant comments to adults. I don't really understand what they mean with that, but i'm assuming that literally the adults i often talk to sometimes interpret some of my boundary settings as defiant when i don't really mean to.

And during my meltdowns, i find it extremely hard to just use my words and be safe while doing so. Especially during shutdowns, i wasn't able to move or talk for some reason. I think i was very overwhelmed with information, coming in from every side. That's known to overwhelm me but it very rarely happens now and then, thankfully.

I find using AAC will help me out with all of these struggles. But i don't think i can convince my parents and/or my school of that without not seeing myself as an disability appropriator, you know?

[tarzan737]

Aabria "Coup Queen" Iyengar and her 2IC Brennan "Get in the Comments!" Lee Mulligan

[lepertamar]

tamar on the top of erezel rly was like na'aseh v'nishma huh. and then she's still like still pretty confused and incompetent (affectionate) at understanding stuff g-d is saying even after the timeskip in stars, but obviously Working At It....clearly has gotten so much more competent a year later in lives.......! she rly does not pick a single fucking thing that is easy for her.....she rly is kinda, friction,