#vocal loss

[frequentlyflash]

heavily autistic coded character… save me

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[chicago-geniza]

During quarterly check-in manager was like "you're on your final warning re: absences but if you absolutely need to miss a shift, you can try to get it excused with a doctor's note" and I said "actually I can't, because you guys don't give me health insurance and don't pay me enough to see a doctor without it, which is, incidentally, a contributing factor to why I am always sick" and manager was like "ok, yeah, I see your point" lmfaooo

[clownrecess]

Something that I think a lot of people don't know about and don't talk about enough is that loosing oral speech can and if for a long enough time, will damage your vocal cords.

I can attest to the fact that there are many challenges that come with not being able to speak orally. One of the lesser-known consequences of prolonged loss of oral speech is the potential damage it can cause to one's vocal cords. When someone stops using their vocal cords to make speech, the muscles can weaken, and the vocal cords themselves can atrophy. This process is similar to what happens when you break a bone. You are put into a cast, ergo that limb is immobilized. If you don't use the limb for a long time, the muscles will weaken, and you may need to do physical therapy to regain strength and range of motion. In the same way, if someone doesn't use their vocal cords for an extended period, they may need to do speech therapy to help with the deterioration of vocal cords. I do want to quickly note that I haven't been put in speech therapy for this reason before (though I have been in speech therapy for other reasons, of course).

The first time I lost speech for a long period of time was when I was 10-12 (I cant remember the exact age right now, I'm sorry. I know I've listed it in other posts if you are curious though, but if you don't want to check, just know it was somewhere in that age range. My brain is feeling "fuzzy" with time this morning.) and it was for four months. Once I regained some mouth words, my vocal cords were extremely weak and difficult to use. My speech was practically unintelligible for a bit. The first thing I had said was "Do we have woodpeckers?" because I heard a noise outside that sounded like them (news flash, it wasnt woodpeckers. Woodpeckers arent even in my state so I don't know what was going through my head.), but due to the weakness in my vocal cords it sounded more like "da-wee...ave.. w-ah-pehck..ehs?". It was painful to use my oral voice, I was straining it just to say that sentence. It was extremely quiet, and shaky. I also was unable to control my breathing (not my normal breathing. I mean the breathing patterns required to use oral speech), causing a lot of gaps between speech sounds.

I obviously don't know what my oral voice sounds like now, but I can feel it getting weaker again when I hum as a stim.

It's important for people to understand that losing oral speech is not just a matter of finding a different way to communicate; it can have significant and lasting impacts on our physical health as well.

[spitblaze]

Btw if you consider the slaughter of OVER 30,000 CIVILIANS INCLUDING THE TARGETING OF REPORTERS AND CHILDREN to be 'the reality of war' or pull up with some 'its hard to justify anything in war' bullshit I'm blocking you on sight. I'm not even gonna argue, if you can’t find it in you to at least consider that a country's steamrolling of an entire population might not be justified because [checks notes] maybe a thousand people were attacked, MAYBE, then I don’t think I could change your mind anyway. Glad to know you consider 'never again' to just be a catchy slogan rather than a meaningful phrase though 👍

[glacialswordsman]

[python-nebula]

after i made my friend watch genloss with me, we spent the next month saying 'are you a doctor dude? i've been meaning to up my prescription, 100/100' over and over (charlie says it in the ep2 surgery scene)

(we're both autistic if that adds context lmaooo)

[captain-legarde]

Sorry to be a stoner but Gorgoroth hits so hard when you're blazed as fuck, their instrumental cascading wall of sound is so good to just disappear into

[asexualbookbird]

brains are weird and mine dug up the memory of a former friend i had when i was newly disabled. being newly disabled i still didnt understand my energy limits and doctors were still telling me to "push through it" and "exercise more" so i was going for hikes every day i should not have been taking nevermind taking ALONE and so i would come home and CRASH and nap for two hours and this guy this fucking guy said to me "doesnt that defeat the purpose of your exercise if you just come home and sleep" what a fucking moron

anyway! we are no longer friends for unrelated reasons

[qiyan-agula]

I am not okay about this....

[miami2k17]

i fear i'm a hater for saying this but moscow rules would have been such a good vampire weekend song he should have kept it

[furinafontaine]

As someone whose main music scene is punk & rock, it’s both delightful and tragic that fellow fans of that genre are the ones to jump to Chappell Roan’s defense. We shouldn’t be so used to what poor mental health can do to celebrities but we are. It’s nice to see people who wouldn’t normally listen to her rally for her, but it’s so sad that the people who would listen have decided she’s not worth their time anymore just because she has emotions…

[corrodedcoughin]

Corroded coffin cover of ‘day man’ with full WWE style wrestling accompaniment of Freak dressed as Day Man and Eddie as Night Man ending with a steal chair knock out and Eddie having to be dragged off stage

[3dfangs]

My hands do not belong to me, and I'm not myself either...

[flock-talk]

Been trying to encourage chatter with him, got one very quiet “good boy” today!

[maliwaru]

現実感喪失 ( Lose of Sense of Reality ) — shuffleRan feat. flower ⤷ tw : derealization and unreality