#noverbal

[rjhpandapaws]

PTSS and Autism mean that sometimes i dont speak at all for days at a time.

I have a phone interview on the 30th and i havent verbally said anything in 3 weeks.

[cluepoke-archive]

I love splatoon

[strange-wafflez]

I need pro tips on how to survive this one-year (?) Bastille hiatus.

Thank you for your attention.

[ramanoodles]

Fellas I got a situation.

So I think it is *possible* I MIGHT have autism.

But like my family has never discussed that kind of topic before.

I have no idea what the fuck I should do about it.

[somniiator]

still thinking a lot about this post and zulaikha's perception of love, so here goes a ramble about it.

because really, there's not a time in her life she or anyone else in her family has said 'i love you'. her parents were never even married-- never really held love for each other. as i've mentioned before, they were together because it was convenient more than anything else. and to say that they were 'together' is a bit of a stretch anyway-- zulaikha was an unexpected result, and aside from minu more or less being blackmailed to staying with mithra and his family, she was the only thing that kept her parents even being remotely associated with each other. otherwise minu would have found a way to flee much sooner, rather than only doing so after zulaikha had already left.

zulaikha can't even claim to have loved her parents either. in fact, she loathed her father for perpetuating the discord within deshret's relics by serving as a record keeper and for his demonstrated willingness to take out even his own family if it meant securing his own power. and even if she preferred her mother over him, neither would have gone as far as to say 'i love you' to one another. minu kept her child at arm's length anyway, and zulli was thus raised without much outright affection. care was instead expressed in the form of training to make her stronger, and the occasional caring of the wounds she sustained in the process. it was minimal, and could hardly be called 'affection', but it was all she knew.

after leaving her family behind-- and particularly after spending time in aaru village-- zulli learned that 'love' wasn't as far away from her reach as she thought. it became easier to express through looking after one another as a community, ensuring that those you cared about had all that they could need on both physical and emotional levels, and small gestures meant to bring comfort or a smile to one's face. and she carried that with her even after relocating to sumeru city and to the current day.

what remains, however, is a sort of discomfort with verbal expressions of love. it's still too foreign to her, and too hard to believe. after all, anyone could just say 'i love you'. but to her, actions are what prove it, be they big or small. of course, she can grow used to it with time-- but friends and significant others must be prepared for it to take a while for her to not bristle and become suspicious when told 'i love you', and even similar reactions when given a few too many words of affirmation. and it will take even longer for her to say those words in return. she'll continue to want to show her love-- particularly through acts of service and quality time. even physical touch or gift giving! just... give her some patience on verbal declarations, that's all. but i promise she'll shower you with love in every other way possible

[baptism-inblood]

wuhhhh melts onto the dashboard i stayed home from work today maybe. gonna try 2 draw smthn im sooooo. rubs face

[coffeeastronaut]

donna .

[warmdrpepper]

i follow the tumblr AITA and the amount of people in the replies that just scream TALK WITH THEM!!!!!!!!!!! when op clearly states that they did communicate and that didnt work is astounding but not that shocking

[william-austin]

hot take: I don't like when people dismiss the fact mental health exists and label it as 'being toxic' instead of finding out what the situation is

[eternxlstar-archive]

Today is surcoses birthday, would anyone like to interact with her?

[sedgwickpdf]

wh. uh. hi. hello

[annoyingalchemist]

I think actually charging a monthly fee to allow your users to talk should be Mega Illegal

[cluepoke-archive]

Hmm I've been considering making puppets of calendertowns characters as a bit of a fun side project for myself ( I made a mock up for cricket out of rolled up paper balls and scrap fabric even!!)

[hal-o-ween]

Also I forgot to mention this but this is now basically canon.

Cousin who plays Tassitus decided that he met Cibarius while extremely sleep deprived and Tassitus just assumed Cibarius was a hallucination, initially. Cibarius couldn't speak yet, which didn't help.

I love making the stupidest fucking memes for dnd. Anyways, POV Tassitus has internet access

[ignocubo]

my favorite part of the monster high fandom is getting blacklisted by the 'accepting and diverse community' for agreeing ghoulia is not good noverbal rep because it's been confirmed by two different creators that that wasn't the intent for her and because zombese is an ACTUAL LANGUAGE in the monsterverse, meaning that the grunts are not substitutes for words, they are ACTUAL WORDS.