I can only speak for me - I was verbal for a short time as a baby (regressed a bit until by age 4 it was really noticeable) and had a chance to learn to read & write before mouth noises became pretty much non-functional for me.

I use ASL (American Sign Language - there are others for different countries and regions - is good to learn the one for your region - deaf/HoH people will appreciate it and it will give nonverbal autistics another avenue of communication) and speech-to-text/text-to-speech on a tablet/notebook hybrid computer.

I feel you... No military stuff here, just a sister who's grown increasingly racist and rude recently..

tayefeth replied to your post “I unfollowed both of my brothers on FB during the election. I recently...”

There are people who come out of military service with empathy mostly intact. Most of them aren't white men, though.

Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?*

Honestly, I’m pretty sure not. Well, maybe Vision/Tony. Altho I might change my mind if I saw a well-written fic. It’s not likely something I’m going to seek out, unless someone recommended it.

Do you have a NoTP in your fandom? Are they a popular OTP?*

Speaking as a physics teacher, the catapult is usually fired at a target, not at a person. Liability issues are a pain.

WELL THAT’S BORING.

I realize I’m spoiled by years of western martial arts and medieval re-enactment and my puzzlement over the question “But what would I do with a sword?” is unusual (fight with it, of course! What else do you do with a sword?) but...

I'm actually also a Warren Buffett fan. One of his foundations funds a lot of research around improving contraception access/decreasing the incidence of unplanned pregnancy in the US, which is like . . . my jam.

tayefeth replied to your post “Sam, I learned tonight that Warren Buffet plays the ukulele, and I...”

Warren Buffett also plays bridge. Reasonably well for someone who isn't a professional.

I’m gonna have to make up Warren Buffett Fan Club membership cards! :D

bastlynn

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“The NBA's secret addiction”

More important question: What's Steve, Tony's or DJs fave sandwiches? Will there be a food-off face-off over toppings??

You don’t owe anyone here an explanation.

I'm not the anon in question, but do you have recs for fic authors who write T'Challa without fetishizing him?

I can’t say I’ve seen all that much of T’Challa. Most non-POC writers are wary (with good reason after the very serious real-life death threats sent to a Nat’Challa shipper) of writing T’Challa at all, and for some reason the black community seem to only ship T’Chucky, which... yeah, doesn’t particularly do it for me.

Best T’Challa stuff I’ve seen was T’Challa/Sam. Maybe try searching Ao3 for that pairing and see what you can find?