Ever Wish you were Nonverbal?

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Why don't you just learn sign?

Can't say that I have...but I sure wish sometimes that OTHER PEOPLE would shut up for awhile...I can only listen to so much jabbering for so long and then I am just DONE.

If I were completely nonverbal, at least people would believe me when I tell them that sometimes I am literally incapable of speaking, instead of insisting that I just don't want to talk. No one at all who's met me in person believes that And it would take away all the stress, energy drain, and frustration of trying to speak - it takes much less effort for me to communicate in writing, and I wouldn't have to repeat myself over and over, each time becoming even more difficult than the last because being asked to repeat myself increases my stress, making it more difficult to talk. I have a text-to-speech app on my phone - I'd much rather use that instead of speaking, but my parents get angry with me if I even suggest possibly using it. I really wish I had something I could use as an excuse so I could switch to entirely nonverbal communication without being constantly scolded for it. It would be much easier for both me and everyone trying to communicate with me.

For me, being an Aspie allows me to talk at great length about many things but in the end I'm still Autistic.

There have been many social situations where I have locked up completely and was unable to speak at all due to sensory overload or usually when an aggressive situation presents itself that I don't know how to handle. I just sit there, dumb as a stump, unable to speak or do anything because my mind is unsure of its next course of action.

There are many Aspies who are involuntarily non-nerbal like that but that goes hand-in-hand with being Autistic in general I think. This is something that we all have in common I believe.

Yes

You can learn sign language

Although not everyone know sign language

You can go nonverbal except with friends, family, school , work

Or you could make friends that know sign language

I'm primarily nonverbal and get by just fine most of the time by texting and gesturing.

I would have just as much or more trouble trying to converse with sign language as I do with being verbal.

I had to withdraw from a sign-language class once in college because I was failing the course.

I don't believe being nonverbal would help me any.

I struggle with talking, sometimes I can't talk.
Being completely nonverbal is worse - I don't see any benefits.

I wish I had a remote to shut people up and to blow up their stereos.

I have gone nonverbal in every single one of those situations listed above. I don't care where I am or whom I'm with. Obviously you can't if you work in customer servive or something but it is so important for me neurologically to be nonverbal sometimes that I just don't care whom I am with or where I am or what people think about it. The other people just have to deal with it. And if tbey don't read sign, I use my phone to type conversation or I use a pen and small notebook that I keep in my bag.

Oh, gosh, what I would've given for that in college... Living in a dorm was a nightmare for me, my noise sensitivity and inability to tune anything out definitely had a negative effect on my schoolwork.

yeah. Sound overload makes me have massive meltdowns and go into overload shock. It also makes me suicidal.

If you want to be nonverbal, you could get s telecommuting job

Some classes are offered online

Some classes do not involve talking

basically every day...

I spent 30 years being super-literate for the job. What an act! Exhausting. Now I wear a lanyard with a button that says: "Autism. Sometimes unable to answer." What a relief! No obligation to communicate at all. I wonder if that might be tied to mild shock, when things are getting to be too much and I have to be "elsewhere" i.e. no in-coming sensory stuff.

I'm fluently verbal but I'm not interested in interacting with more than my family and caregivers. Even then, I don't speak much or else I use the same stock phrases repetitively. I mostly use texting or my communication device, or my actions to speak for me. I do like to sing, though. Sometimes I sing my speech.