Hemiverbalflux. (Coined 15/7/2024)
Hemiverbalflux is a label I created because I wanted a specific term that describes my experience. It uses the word hemi (meaning half, same as semi & demi) and combines it with verbalflux. It means:
When your verbality fluctuates in intensity but is always, constantly, within the borders of semiverbal and demiverbal
Struggling with speech but the difficulty, length and frequency fluctuate. Sometimes having major difficulty and being unable to form coherent sentences to sometimes being able to speak well; Sometimes being unable to speak without extreme difficulty for weeks, to being able to speak reliably for a few days
Verbal shutdowns fluctuate in frequency, length & intensity. Sometimes being a few times a month, to being a few times a week, to being every day; Sometimes lasting for a few minutes, to lasting a few hours, to lasting days
Fluctuations can be random or can have causes such as stress
Fluctuations can happen often or over long periods of time
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Hemiverbal can also be used on its own as a separate term to mean bordering/being somewhere between semiverbal and demiverbal. I may make a post in the future officially coining the term but I don't plan to do that soon. I also didn't make a flag for just hemiverbal as it's honestly just a little bonus from making hemiverbalflux.
Definitions of demiverbal and semiverbal (that I use) to show what hemiverbalflux fluctuates between.
Can reliably speak most of the day for most days of the week
Verbal shutdowns happen anywhere from a few times a week to a few times a month, possibly for no apparent reason
May experience some level of difficulty with mouth words, anywhere between slight difficulty only a little of the time to half the time
Only being able to speak in specific circumstances OR showing moderate to extreme difficulty with speaking most/all of the time
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