#verbal ability

If you’d like to return to being more verbal (to how you are usually) then first of all it might help to think about why you might have become less verbal.It could be that you’re tired, stressed, particularly distracted by worries or other things you have going on/are thinking about, have depression, a sign of autistic burnout… It could even be lack of practise (caused by previously experiencing one of the above mentioned issues, or just circumstance).Figuring out what the problem is might help you figure out how to deal with it. For example, if you have depression, seeking treatment for that might help. If you realise you’re exhausted/stressed from attending school or work or other places, you might want to think about accommodations that might help ease the exhaustion/stress / think of ways to conserve your energy. If it’s through lack of practise, then gradually increasing the amount of verbalising you do might help.You could practise by:- Reading aloud.- Scripting questions or comments to initiate brief (very brief, if need be) interactions with people you are close to.- Challenging yourself to respond to things more fully where possible or use fillers to give you more time to think about a response (for example, if asked a question, sayig, “Erm,” then pausing to figure out whether yes or no suffices, or whether there’s anything you could add. - Challenging yourself to answer without using the words ‘yes’ or ‘no’, or to use ‘because’ if it would be relevant.

2/2 autistic kids are usually nonverbal or mainly nonverbal. I haven’t been in the community long enough to know if it’s a stereotype or not. I was a talkative child up until I was 9 years old for some reason and became really reserved. When I asked my mom if she thought if I have autism she said that “there’s no way in hell” that I could ever be (although she claims that my older brother is). I thought I had OCD because I like patterns and numbers a certain way. Idk what to do. Help? If you canIn the ICD-10, and previously in the DSM-IV, the differentiating factor between a diagnosis of autism and Asperger’s syndrome is often whether the child has/had a language delay, which might explain why the majority of the information you’ve come across suggests that autistic children are likely to be non-verbal.The DSM-5 doesn’t differentiate, and basically it’s possible for autistic people to be completely non-verbal, to always/consistently be hyper-verbal, or to be somewhere in between (having varying degrees of verbal ability or verbal ability to fluctuate).It might be that your mother has a narrow view of how autism presents, but if you are uncertain and struggling to figure out whether it’s likely or not, it might also help to look into conditions that can present similarly, some of which are listed here: http://askanautistic.co.uk/post/138858248919/what-conditionsdisordersetc-could-present

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There are very few researches on autism and verbal ability, and I would like to ask members of the #ActuallyAutistic and/or the ND community for their experiences. Thanks, I appreciate it a lot. 

- Os

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