#speech things

Me: Ooh, what prize do I get?

Preschooler: A bath bomb.

Or do you say “a whole ’nother” as if the word ‘whole’ is an adjective that got lost and found its way into the word ‘another’?

Does anyone else create speeches while walking around your room that you’ll never get the opportunity to give or remember how it goes? Or am I just crazy... yeahhhhhh I’m crazy

But honestly if I turned on a text to speech every time I did that I would have a good pockets worth of speeches about women’s rights, pro choice, rights in general, the damn wall, and other things I can’t remember at this moment.

and like, i have been realizing that my natural speech is very abnormal 

and i grew up learning how to speak in a way that was acceptable and wouldn’t draw attention to me  - being a highly anxious child from the moment i was born, my goal was always to be indistinguishable from my peers

but since i started living with kai and rei, and slowly broke down the ableist rules that were so ingrained in me, i have developed a way of speaking that is much more comfortable and natural to me. 

it started as a very subtle thing, usually starting with echolalic phrases (which are the majority of my natural speech anyway) but then growing into lots of my self-scripted speech 

and now i have a much more natural and enjoyable way of speaking but i notice that i am only capable of using it around kai, rei, our one floof friend, and the parent friend who is the floof who comes to all the autism meetings and is gr9. 

i occasionally use it when i am with my immediate family but not my older brothers or my dad i think 

anyway, i want to take a video of me speaking with my natural speech because i think it is super cool that after 21 years i am finally able to have my own speech 

“What?” 

comes out of your mouth before your brain has time to process what they said. 

So a second later they’re repeating themselves but now your brain has figured out what they said the first time so you cut them off mid-sentence like,

“Oh RIGHT yeah yeah”.