#nonverbal acting

[crow-in-snow]

I was gripped by a sudden onslaught of love for this man’s stupid old face and a violent desire to gif it, so have a few of my favourite weird expressions Twelve has made

[voilaammayi]

I just can’t stop wondering how much we don’t know because we can’t hear it - because of sherlock & co being recorded.

how many times had john rolled his eyes at sherlock when he was being ridiculous, but smiled to himself the moment he turned around? how many times had mariana leaned in the doorway to 221b baker street and silently but fondly watched john and sherlock bickering? how many times sherlock just didn’t say anything when archie climbed on his lap and instead started to scratch behind the dog’s ears?

how many gentle smiles, cheeky grins and warm gazes with sparkling eyes? fingers touching one’s arm, hands on the shoulder or tight hugs? how much affection spread without words?

how much is being not said, left to imagination?

[radiosummons]

I do find it kinda cute that Mandalorians will physically use their bodies to convey their emotions. I don't know why, but the exaggerated nonverbal tilt of their heads to indictate confusion, amusement, shock or whatever else just never gets boring to me. Not to mention the way they will shift their bodies to lean up against something or to indicate that they see someone as a threat.

If anything, I find myself more a bit more endeared to watching these nonverbal forms of communication. One of my favorite things about acting and animation is the subtle choices the actors/animators will make in silently communicating a character's emotions or mental state. I find myself more fascinated by not what a character actually says, but how they use their body and their facial expressions to convey what they really mean.

I do also find the idea of Mandalorians being more unguarded about expressing their emotions when their helmets are off to be a very interesting take that I've seen some members of the fandom run with. Especially if said Mandalorian has never really had to learn to guard their expressions due to wearing their helmet constantly. That's a cool idea and I'm glad that people have been exploring this.

I dunno. Maybe it's just because I was an Animation major and had a few professors that made us study acting/guest lectures on acting, but the ability to convey any thought or emotion nonverbally is just one of the coolest things I think you can use to express a character's personality, motivation, conflict(s), etc.

Tldr; This is really just another way of me saying I think the Mandalorians are neat. They're my special space idiots and I can't help but talk about them.

[autisticmusings]

So I sometimes lose the ability to speak. Sometimes it happens when I wake up, but usually it happens due to overstimulation, exhaustion due to meltdown/shutdown, etc. I’ve been told by nonverbal autistics to not use the term nonverbal to describe these experiences, which I understand, so I would only ask would semiverbal be a better term to describe my hard time with speech? Speech does take actual work for me, I’ve had many people describe it as a “thoughtless action” but for me it is a conscious, deliberate action that takes work and if I use it too much, I will lose it for the rest of the day. But while it’s not as easy for me, I don’t want to step on the toes of those who it is impossible for. I thank any other autistics, especially those who are nonverbal, for their time.

[kasumingo]

So tired of mfs going "everyone wants to be lgbt/neurodivergent now!! stop using our language!!"

it's as if the internet gave people ability to explore themselves and realize there is something going on, especially when they congregate together in groups that share those traits

It’s as if these words describe their experience and helps them in one way or another

[anachronistic-falsehood]

qphil's eggza persona is just him age regressing SEND TWEET

[wickedcriminal]

Elder and Big Tooth communicate just as they do in the movies; with body language!! Big Tooth is also able to understand Norse, but not speak it-- Big Tooth actually learned Norse because of Hiccup talking with his hands! The body language correlating with the words helped him to learn what the words meant! Meanwhile, Big Tooth is like the windwalker; mainly mute, and doesn't speak much Dragonese on a good day, if at all. It's alright though, since Elder can't speak it anyway. Despite the language barrier, though, Elder's nonverbal way of quietly and kindly demonstrating peace is what makes dragons so easy to open up to him.

On the other hand, Younger and Little Tooth speak to each other in Dragonese alone! Little Tooth is very, very chatty, keeping Younger very well practiced in Dragonese, (but he downright refuses to learn Norse, and any words he knows he learned against his will). Unlike his big brother, Younger is not very good at body language and gestures, needing to communicate with direct speech instead, which is what drove him to learn so many extra languages! He is fluent in Norse, Latin, French, and Dragonese, and his knack for eloquent and charismatic wording is what makes him such a good spokesperson and eventual king. His speeches can soften even the hardest of old dragon hearts.

[onlygot20mins]

Friend requested angst, so here is season 3 episode 25.

"Date tiempo."

Ay, I really want to give both of them a hug here.

[arabdoll]

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."

William Shakespeare

[cool-abed-filmz]

look at them,, the autistic trio /hc

[calamitys-child]

Boring unhelpful training got cancelled so my boss just enrolled me in a BSL course cause I'd said I think we should try and learn at least basics as part of our accessibility push and also because I want to. So he's like okay cool here's a company sponsored really good course try it out if you like it then we can get everyone a link and it gives you something to do. So a good day all round I think so far :) I can spell the alphabet and count to 50 and the course says don't do more than one or two lessons right next to each other cause you'll forget it which is. Fair. So after this I'm gonna go a walk I think

[sigs-gurney]

Anyone else have this when they start to go nonverbal?

When my social battery runs out at work I have a hard time communicating and eventually go non verbal. It’s like I get fatigue in my chest and throat and my tongue just goes mush mode, so I have to force out every word. My brain stops forming complete phrases at that point so I start skipping words a lot.

Like instead of “Would you like a drink with your order?” It devolves to “Any drink yeah?” And “Here are the free options (for the sides),” it turns into “These free”. It’s suuuuper embarrassing.

Customers usually think I’m being rude when this happens, but occasionally I get the impression that the customer thinks I’m a foreigner and that’s arguably way better bc they’re nice to me.

I did try learning Russian for a while (my reading is way better than speaking atm), and oddly enough I’ve found recently that putting on a slight accent helps when it gets like this?? Idk if it’s because of the difference in articulation or what, but when I do I feel like I’m able to focus more on being comprehensible with fewer words than speaking “normally”, which is way more draining.

Lmk if this happens to you ig

[haventdecidedyet]

Starting to see that I am him and that’s ok <3

[unproduciblesmackdown]

like hearing an autistic person talking abt realizing like "oh so friendships for some ppl don't involve always having to maintain a performance" and going damn right yeah and now "oh so friendships for some ppl involve their getting to expect that the other ppl will be interested in them and provide support" like huh go figure. more surprising like oh right i guess i always felt like interactions require maintaining a performance that can only go wrong (generally true; like there's no "well you're ruining things by keeping ppl from being the Real You so just Be Yourself" like a] masking isn't Real or done by Yourself or b] like if you unmask people like you now & ableism is over, b/c it was your fault for reacting to it in the first place) & thus also that i should be interested & provide support but not expect that in turn / the sense as well that you are/can only come up short and have things to make up for anyways while lucky whoever's even providing the time of day

then it's always an Exercise to go "oh right well beyond going [my god autistic character] the whole time, what Things re: winston billions was i still not quite seeing as as unusual / Not Good as they are. even for billions" like sure noticing he's holding on to the hopes of some kind of positive / actual relationship w/rian for like year 950 & this manifesting with the Determined Friendliness but zooming in like oh i guess that adamant amicability sure involves winston suppressing a negative reaction to negative treatment and yet still hoping for an improvement, which like, was always Possible but a) hinged on rian simply choosing to change how she regards/treats him (or someone intervening to change the situation) & b) apparently is not going to happen. thinking like yeah that's very Friendly of him. and knowing like man winston's sure still trying to keep this friendliness offer open for like two years. but also now more specifically going like Yeah and pretty fucked then that his baseline expectations don't include that Mutual Interest & Support (though someone being abusive is definitely interested just not in any good ways. and certainly not (actually) supportive)

[corset]

I’m the world’s most repressed deep in the masking autist that whenever I allow myself room to breathe it’s always a moment like “wow amazing how I suddenly feel better I’m sure this has nothing to do with anything important”

[carbonateddelusion]

pretty people <3<3<3 beautiful bois and gorgeous gorls <3<3<3