#nonverbal bitches?

[eeleye-mcshitposts]

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oh the headcannon whores are gonna love this

[brainrotcharacters]

deadclaws being so attuned to each other that they have a conversation with facial expressions

[choralendall]

hear me out on this one

listen. cause. cause they. cause?

[newjenns]

- detective comics 1080

[cute-brainz]

hello I'm back from the dark woods ,today I am just appreciating Tank and Sam !

[thousandyearphantombunker]

"just give them an aac device!"

"just teach them sign language"

"body language and facial expressions alone are good enough for communicating what you need"

Nonononono f*!k off. Stop acting like nonverbal people have easy solutions to their lack of verbality. Not everyone can use an aac device- some people struggle with spelling or can't spell at all, some people have motor skills issues that makes typing a nightmare that takes a long time, some can't articulate themselves without outside help. Learning sign is hard if you again have motor skills issues or struggle to make facial expressions that convey what your feeling (flat affect applies to more than just a person's voice- some people really struggle to make facial expressions and have stilted or strange body language- you people can understand why autistic people get burnt out from masking all day- you know often having to control their body language and make certain facial expressions etc yet you can't understand why nonverbal autistics can't just learn sign- a language very heavy on facial expressions and expressive body language?) also again spelling and motor skill issues are a pain and also a lot of families with deaf or nonverbal children refuse to learn sign for said children and I'm sorry in day to day life I haven't met many people who speak sign- yeah you can move to a community with a lot of deaf or nonverbal people that use sign but that's not always possible and its very limiting. And do I even have to explain the third one- autistic body language is confusing to neurotypicals and I hate the stereotype that its just so blunt and obvious/better than neurotypical communication- maybe that's what its like for you and your 'smart sheldon cooper/Wednesday Addams' style autism but not every autistic person 'says exactly what they mean' often times autistic people struggle with semantics and articulating sentences that make any sense! and all these misunderstandings surrounding stimming are annoying to!- spinning can be a 'happy' stim but it can also mean your overwhelmed or understimulated, a lot of people with autism have voices that lack inflections, mix that in with being unable to use words and no it does not help communicate their needs- f!*k off with acting like its easy not all autistic people who are nonverbal can spell, not all autistic people w are nonverbal have good motor skills and body language alone is never enough to convey a persons needs. Before anyone comes after me yes Sign is body language but its also actual symbols and can convey full thoughts and ideas and sentences and also body language is hard for a lot of autistic people to convey like stated above.

Not every form autistic communication is being 'logical' and unoffended because 'we're just more logical than those superfluous, shallow neurotypicals that let their feelings control them and are never direct about what they want-we value facts and logic unlike those butthurt neurotypicals' and being overly blunt- no a lot of autistic people find that communication is messy and the ways they can communicate are ineffective and your 'logical, facts dont care about your feelings' style of communication isn't as amazing as you think it is. Stop speaking over nonverbal autistics- their is no real perfect solution to them not being able to speak. And I'm gonna say it- while not all nonverbal people are low functioning or high support needs or whatever the new term is-being nonverbal is a massive disadvantage and having your disability be visible like that is scary in many situations and being unable to communicate your needs can make it impossible to meet your needs-

[eventhetiniestbugs]

okay, question for fellow autistic submas enjoyers 'cuz why not. personally i'm a bit a both!!

[zenodotus-0010]

This whole video (and Saiki K in general) have me thinking about the similarity between my experience as someone with selective mutism and Saiki's whole... thing.

I think people assume that he's been talking telepathically most of the times we as an audience hear him, but because the show actively contradicts that in a lot of places, (where people talk to him and seem to not hear the things he says telepathically, assume his intentions/feelings when he is thinking exactly opposite, etc,) I've always wondered if it was just that most people don't know anyone with selective mutism, and can't conceive of how we communicate outside of speech or sign. 

 Saiki, for all intents and purposes, is selectively mute. He doesn't talk verbally, and while he could communicate telepathically with people, and frequently does so with his parents and other psychic friends, as we see them having proper conversations instead of the usual one-sided ones he has with his friends most of the time, he doesn't. Maybe this is to conceal his psychic powers, maybe it is because he isn't very social, but he still spends most of his time not talking verbally OR psychically. And yet! He has a bunch of friends who care about him a LOT, and this is because... honestly, it's not that difficult to still have fun with people who aren't talking? 

 The way Saiki's friends socialize with him in the show is pretty typical and... honestly, if you have a friend who sometimes goes nonverbal and is totally fine, not in distress or anything, it's a really good guide on how to hang out with them! I think it's a little sad that there's a lot of simplification of Saiki's relationships when you assume that he regularly talks telepathically to his friends, when most of the time he doesn't! 

I don't know. The first time I watched Saiki K, it made me so goddamn happy to see a character like me on screen, and it was such a dream come true that nobody ever really questioned him on it, that here was a nonverbal character who didn't get socially isolated or asked a bunch of probing questions or have to use sign or notes or something to form these connections with his friends. 

[birdybirdnerd]

Anyone got any good asl resources a bitch has been wanting to learn for years

[adelaidedrubman]

for the record i do think jacob is not good at hunting in much the same way i think john is not a good lawyer. the fact that you do something a lot and are always talking about it does not mean you’re good at it otherwise. sex joke you get it

[100percentevil]

Me when im forced to speak when i want to go nonverbal.

[bizlybebo]

experienced the Horrors today. jrwi to fix it

[baileythebean]

“Tears fall to the ground, we’ll just let them drown.” -Melanie Martinez, Crybaby.

I love how she’s addressing her sensitivity but then is like fuck it, they can deal with it. Let them drown. It’s not our problem. Like yes bitch, I am crying right now. I’m stressed and tired and overstimulated. Leave me alone. I am a child. Fuck you. (NOT DIRECTED TOWARDS ANYONE, JUST A RANT)

[king-dra]

Rouji is my favorite side character in gwitch because he spends approximately 70% of his screentime being aggressively flirted with by the baddest bitch in asticassia and not once does he ever realize what is happening

[angelnumber27]

So many of my flop posts on here are (imo) better than the ones that ended up blowing up. Like nope. that one should have gotten 20k notes not 3 and the one with 20k should have gotten 3

[worlds-end-landmine]

so sad seeing people write whole paragraphs happily texting one another and then when they text you its just a sentence