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acchound — hound or celeste — it/hound

selectively mute part time aac user

phys. & cog. disabled , low energy , system

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semiplural

Prev's tags (@the-dream-archives): > I would love to use this if I wasn't scared of being judged

People are going to judge you anyway. People will judge you for literally anything. Bad hair day? Shirt they don't like? Sitting weird? Doing literally nothing but standing there? Someone out there will be judgy about it, but most of the time, that judgy stranger is in your head, not out there. People, on average, are kinder than you'd expect.

Do you want to let the imaginary judge control your every move? Do you want to suffer for their benefit? Does listening to them actually help you live a life that you find rewarding, happy, and comfortable, or does it push you further away from yourself? If the judge didn't exist, what would you let yourself do? Why are you letting the judge stop you? Is that reason actually worth it?

(And if the judge is literal: what are they afraid would happen if they let you do it? What can you do to help them feel safe and respect their needs so they can respect yours in turn?)

But yes, some people will judge you overtly. Some might even be mean to your face. It sucks, it hurts, it's scary. But it's also one thing: honest. That person is telling you exactly what they think. That's a gift. They've just let you know, "this person is not my friend." It tells you that they're not worth your time, and you can disregard their opinion and move on with whatever makes you happy/comfortable/alive.

You're right if a jerk makes you angry or upset or uneasy. That means it's time to ditch them and go find someone kinder (and if you can't, then it's a cue to either find a way out or derail them off the hate- we once got a homophobe off our case by insistently talking about home aquarium care until they ran with the topic change).

But, most importantly: You'll never find the people who love you as you are if you spend all your time trying to be perfectly palatable. Hiding and people pleasing and burying yourself and your needs away doesn't attract the kind of friends who will change your life for the better. That attracts people who see you trying to please them and use it at your expense. And it destroys you from the inside out in the process.

Give your people a chance to see you.

#reblog here too #long post #described

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The challenge so far in making low-tech AAC is picking words. There's limited space in the size of binder that Hawthorne chose- we can probably fit about 240 words in there if we're clever about spacing, likely a few less if we include full phrases, which will need more space but make it much easier to say scripted/common sentences.

That's a lot of words to manually put on cards (more words than core toki pona has!), but it's also very few words to express concepts with, relatively speaking. We're focusing on the critical and general words first and leaving specifics for if we have space left over.

It's definitely going to need to evolve as we figure out what words actually were needed and what words should be swapped for more useful ones. The end result is going to be pretty personal to Hawthorne, though, and we're learning about each other in the process of making it. It's given us more insight into their preferences than we've been able to get before now because we're feeling their reactions to concepts as we all consider whether to include them in the binder.

Any low-tech AAC users have advice or experiences on what words tend to be most practically useful for you?

#not my post #low tech aac #aac #reblogging here in case my followers have anything :]#im personally high tech; so i dont have anything :']

aachound

The only thing I wish my aac did was have a seperate line for pronunciations. The way it's set up the name of the symbol is the pronounciation, which makes it annoying when it doesnt pronounce a name right ! Because I have to have a weird spelling of something for the name instead of hidden :(

For a non-name example: i wanna have a symbol for misnaming someone [similar to misgender] however, it pronounces it not to my liking, so instead of "misname" I have to do one of these:

And even then it's still not super accurate :(

And i really don't wanna do phonetics for it, because that's what I have to read when I wanna use the symbol !

aachound

Prev i have read your tags ! It is typingtalk, yes

My issue is that theres no seperate hidden pronounciation line that doesn't affect the visible symbol name at all.

For example ! On cboard aac it has a label, which is visible, and then a vocalization line, which isn't visible.

This symbol doesnt have an image, but cboard does allow custom symbols as well 🙂‍↕️

And, due to the hidden vocalization line, you can replace titles with a space ! Which is helpful for wordmojis [lots of aac symbol makers use wordmojis in their symbols]

I don't use cboard anymore because the layout overwhelms me a lot, but i really did appreciate the hidden vocalization line

piercingcomet

have you tried the "correct pronounciations" page? youd still have to spell it phonetically, but its unrelated to the individual button and its label/alternative text

it will change the pronounciation for every appearance of that word though. like if you changed the phrase "test word" to be pronounced "mysterious other word," every single button with the phrase "test word" would be pronounced differently

an example i have is our name "sol," cause for some reason it pronounces it "sal" or something

we have the actual button say "sol," and the phonetic spelling is "soul"

and if we wanted, we'd still be able to change the button's label (but not the word) to "our name" or something

aachound

Ooohh okay sorry i misunderstood & didn't see that page :'']

That solves my problem, yes ! Thank you for explaining :]

#tone is genuine #apologies if my prev reblog came off as passive aggressive i didnt mean for that #was genuinely just missing the page #i think itd still be nice if it was in the buttons themselves cuz having it in settings is a bit confusing #for me at least !#like it seems like an extra step when it could just be in the button edit settings. yk ?

aachound

The only thing I wish my aac did was have a seperate line for pronunciations. The way it's set up the name of the symbol is the pronounciation, which makes it annoying when it doesnt pronounce a name right ! Because I have to have a weird spelling of something for the name instead of hidden :(

For a non-name example: i wanna have a symbol for misnaming someone [similar to misgender] however, it pronounces it not to my liking, so instead of "misname" I have to do one of these:

And even then it's still not super accurate :(

And i really don't wanna do phonetics for it, because that's what I have to read when I wanna use the symbol !

aachound

Prev i have read your tags ! It is typingtalk, yes

My issue is that theres no seperate hidden pronounciation line that doesn't affect the visible symbol name at all.

For example ! On cboard aac it has a label, which is visible, and then a vocalization line, which isn't visible.

This symbol doesnt have an image, but cboard does allow custom symbols as well 🙂‍↕️

And, due to the hidden vocalization line, you can replace titles with a space ! Which is helpful for wordmojis [lots of aac symbol makers use wordmojis in their symbols]

I don't use cboard anymore because the layout overwhelms me a lot, but i really did appreciate the hidden vocalization line

The only thing I wish my aac did was have a seperate line for pronunciations. The way it's set up the name of the symbol is the pronounciation, which makes it annoying when it doesnt pronounce a name right ! Because I have to have a weird spelling of something for the name instead of hidden :(

For a non-name example: i wanna have a symbol for misnaming someone [similar to misgender] however, it pronounces it not to my liking, so instead of "misname" I have to do one of these:

And even then it's still not super accurate :(

And i really don't wanna do phonetics for it, because that's what I have to read when I wanna use the symbol !

#aac user #typingtalk aac #aacpunk #high tech aac #aac blog #aac #rant #rant post

Found new aac app !!!! Very helpful, simple layout, many voices, allows emojis & custom symbol pictures !

Is called TypingTalk AAC [photo below]

Been setting up ! Might make post showing boards :D

#aac user #aacpunk #aac blog #high tech aac #aac #typingtalk aac #described

hellhoundzzz

I love you aac apps that are simple*

*compared to other aac apps.

#aac #high tech aac #selective mutism #semi verbal #reblog here also cuz. yk. aac related.

chrome-barkz-aac

This post will be write with a.a.c.! This is what my a.a.c. Grammar is, please be kind. I want to write about how sometime, being a.a.c. user create conflicting access needs between you, the a.a.c. user, And the people you are talking with.

Best example i can think of is, one time i go out drinking in the gayborhood of my city with my friend who is hard of hearing. She could not hear my ipad good enough by itself, so instead i bring up the repeat button, so they can read the word that i type

Actually, he love it because she do not have to guess what word i was saying, or miss part of the sentence! So it work out really well that time.

Sometime it do not work out so well though. Another friend i have is blind, and i was their ride to a doctor appointment. Turns out, the doctor have literally 12 page of paperwork that they have to do, and the font was too small to read easily, and because i can not talk, i can not read to them what it say. At first i would read the words and then type it into my a.a.c. , then i make a.a.c. read it out loud. It was too slow though and frustrated both of us, and they end up taking a picture of the paperwork to read it them self and then ask me to put my finger on the line that they want to write on. It literally take 2 whole hours to do the whole packet.

Sometime it is not just sensory disability that make communication hard!

My dad have dyslexia and a.d.h.d., And we both really like to go swimming together, but i can not use my ipad in the pool because it will obviously get wet and that could hurt it. Instead, i have a laminated low tech board with core word on one side and a letterboard on the other side.

When i spell words, especially longer words or words that have multiple chunks of letter. Not really syllables exactly, but like prefixes and suffixes especially

He gets really confused, and that is not his fault! But it can make it hard to use that specific kind of low tech a.a.c. With him, so we both have a better chat when i use my ipad.

Those are just some of my thought, and if anyone else want to share about how a.a.c. Can make conflicting access need, i would love to hear about it! Please note that i am talking from the perspective of someone who do not have any sensory disability myself, and even though i have some trouble with motor skills that affect me, it do not seriously change how i have to use a.a.c.. So i have more options than some a.a.c. user might, but it is still good to talk about these thing!

I want to make my cboard into german

Unsure how that would work with pronunciation. Maybe there are German aac apps

#aac user #aacpunk #aac blog #high tech aac

zhenya-grey

Friendly reminder, you don't "go nonverbal" because nonverbal is a permanent state. What you're looking for is "verbal shutdown" + many others you can use. Please be considerate with term usage.