I won't go into too much detail because our semi-verbality is personal to us, but we've been working on understanding it more recently, and I find how it works for us really interesting.
Just like many other conditions we have, our semi-verbality affects different headmates in our system in different ways. However, contrary to one of our earliest hypotheses about our verbality (from back when we were first questioning whether we even "counted" as semi-verbal), there aren't any of us that we know of who are fully verbal, just those who have more speech/an easier time speaking. I (Cookie) have a lot of speech, but I can still feel the limitations on my verbality in the back of my head (or throat, in this case) when I front; they're just... looser, in a sense. Not fully verbal, just more verbal than some of my other headmates. And now that we're aware of that, we can avoid pushing ourselves into emotional and social exhaustion and physical pain trying to keep up with fully verbal people.
Unrelated to our plurality, we've been thinking about our past in the context of our semi-verbality, and whether any pieces are falling into place. The answer? Most definitely. We've always been known as "the quiet kid", and that's for multiple reasons, but one of those reasons is likely that we just did not have the verbality to be as loud as other kids. Without anyone sitting us down and explicitly bringing up the possibility about having difficulty speaking (which. You should have, guys. I will not name the specific event but You Should Have, Guys.), we just became "the quiet kid" rather than "the kid that has problems processing and speaking words". Disappointing, but we're used to falling through the cracks of the healthcare system by now. And honestly, I don't blame them too much for this one. Us just naturally being quiet was a perfectly reasonable conclusion to draw, even if it's annoying to look back on now.
It's interesting to learn more about this side of ourselves. We haven't really given it as much thought as other parts of ourselves, but it'd just be frustrating to leave it be forever, so better sooner than later, I guess. Get the basics down now so whatever self-discovery we get up to in our later years will be shrimp color levels of weird
