#nonvebral

art - by shane (drawn before fusion)

muse - our system persona, Dream

art account - @germcore

it's okay to be nonspeaking.

it's ok to be semispeaking.

it's okay to be hyperspeaking.

if you deal with verbal communication issues. if you are selective mute. if you use AACs/TTS. that is okay. how you communicate is up to you. it should be your choice. no one should force you to use your mouth parts for communication. you shouldn't have to pay to communicate.. but we do.

Shane prefers AAC/TTS apps. texted based, picture based, of both. they are unreliably verbal

A lot of system members uses AACs/TTS to communicate. Some alters fully can communicate verbally "normally." some can talk, but prefer AACs/TTS. some are nonverbal, semiverbal. or semispeaking or nonspeaking or unreliably verbal, verbalflux/altverbal, it depends on the alter who wants to use which term.

and no you cannot "go" nonverbal or semiverbal. it's verbal loss or shutdown. you can only "become" semi or nonverbal pretty much from regression. we use to use "go semi/nonverbal" but we now know it is a constant state.

🍯 art by Honey. drawn before the fusion

Art Account - @germcore Muse is Moon.

This is a post to remind you it's okay to use AACs/TTS

AACs are important for autistics that deal with communication issues. When your mouth parts don't work (verbal loss/ nonspeaking, semispeaking, selectively mute etc) or hell, you don't want to use verbal communication. And that's valid too.

There are plenty of auties that use both verbal and nonverbal communication. There are plenty of auties that prefer nonverbal communication. And that's okay.

We have semiverbal and nonverbal alters and alters who have verbal loss. In our life we've been forced to be verbal and that's not okay. our system is full of AAC users

our main host is a unreliably verbal / semispeaking / semiverbal..