#tecnicaly. LOL

[thedogslegart]

PHEW! So glad I was able to finish this up for @roamingtigress ! Happy Secret Winter Excange! I was sit picturing this in my head for weeks but was unable to wokr on it, I hope you like how it turned out!

This piece was for the @rdrevents 2024 winter exchange which I have giddily recived my own piece for and cannot wait to read! Thanks to everone behind teh scenes. Little events like this are forever a blast <3

[thebirdarts]

Realised I hadn't drawn just for myself for almost a week- so I went for a veryyy self indulgent Tesoro<3

it's tecnicaly comms practice and I did time it but comms usually involve adding clothes so not the most accurate timing to my normal time lol.

[nonspeakingkiku]

Hi Kiku, if it's alright I could really use some advice...

My friends are all, super insistent that I have to learn how to pronounce certain words better because someone's uncomfy with wrong pronunciations of certain words, I tecnicaly /can/ pronounce a lot the "right " way but its actively straining ad hard to force myself to becase of habit and the sounds used to form those words, I also have trauma from being forced to talk normally and verbally as a child which makes all of this harder

Their trying to be encouraging, but a lot of it just feels like trying to force "correct" speech on me again

In ther mind, If i can pronounce a word right I should just do it, even though it's still hard for me to. I've been trying to learn how to speak in away thats comfortable and not straining on me, but this is apparently wrong because someone's uncomfortable with it, and because people can't understand me.. (tbf it's only 2 words, but the feeling is still there and it's still hard for me to change these words bc of an accent and speech impairments)

My friend group is made up of all disabled people, i tried to point out that calling my speech wrong and saying I need to change it is rooted in ableism, and got told I was making everything out of nothing...I'm confused because I'm not the only one in my group wit speech impairment, just the only one that doesnt want to change my speech

Am I actually in the wrong here?? Am i making a big deal out of nothing?

Hi! Ask advice is fine ☺️ Kiku can't always promise will be the best advice lol. But Kiku tries.

You not wrong. It sound like your friends being very ableist.

If you not feel like work you have to do to say words the way other want (and it not hurt anyone) worth it, don't do it.

You wellbeing is more important than how someone else feel about how you talk. Hope this help. ☺️

[streb-z-fiok]

I was gonna do vent art

Then my

Arms and hands said "no" so here I am