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Drehmaschine
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14 Jan 2014, 1:19 pm

For me it is that I cannot physically manage but maybe two or three very slurred words (usually only come out as a slight deep grunt). My handwriting is usually just as unintelligible as my speech (unless I have ample time to write each letter) but typing is fine.



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14 Jan 2014, 5:18 pm

i am ever more nonverbal it seems to me, ever more often i have to tell myself "now i've been much too verbal. i need to find back to being nonverbal again".

then i try to do things in ever smaller scale .. i imagine more like a child .. directly .. until the babbling in my head stops .. peace quiet relief!

i imagine real me is pretty nonverbal. he is ever more visible. i think i always tried to hide him .. probably ashamed of him ..

allowing myself to live in a nonverbal place is such a huge relief. like somehow life is suddenly beginning to make sense to me

to actually not being able to speak has happened a few times to me .. and i notice ever more that when i feel overwhelmed my speech is blurred and very difficult for me to focus on at all ..


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14 Jan 2014, 6:09 pm

Aleithei wrote:
This may not be the right place to ask this. I am taking linguistics and while learning about the biology associated with speech, I got curious, so I am asking.
For those who are entirely, or partially non-verbal, what is it about speech that is so difficult? Is it moving your articulators (tongue, jaw, etc)? Or is it connecting the sounds to form words, or is it something else entirely?
If this is a rude question I apologize, I am just curious.


I to was curious if there were non-verbal people here.

Thanks for asking so nicely.



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14 Jan 2014, 9:13 pm

For me it just depends during sensory overload sometimes I move my mouth but nothing comes out and other times it hurts me to even get the to move my mouth or anything at all for that matter. Sometimes for example someone might open the door for me and then I would say thank you but then it seem like I had not said anything at all I thought I had said something in my perspective but nothing came out. Other times I know what I want to say in my head but then when I speak my words get all mixed up I never even realized it's happened before until someone pointed it out to me I mean sure sometimes I knew that my words were coming out I incorrectly but the majority of the time I was so focused on what I was saying I didn't realize it. Sometimes I try to pronounce things but I just can't and sometimes I just don't know what to say.


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