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[atypi-cals]

🦢 Do you mostly communicate externally or internally?

🦥 What is something that instantly makes someone switch in?

🦢 Do you communicate externally or internally?

Mostly internally, if our communication allows it. It used to be about a 50/50 split between internal and external back when we first started communicating with eachother in 2019ish. However, our ADHD + DID doublecombo bad memory makes external communication hard (often times we leave a note for someone and they don't find it until months later), and since late 2021 Valerian has been around, near front, almost constantly, so he's able to deliver messages between people who otherwise are unable to communicate.

🦥 What's something that instantly makes someone switch in?

Well, in my case, being in pain in public. Specifically, pain relating to our chronic illness and mobility issues. I'm very prone to just finding myself existing in a public place because another alters pain threshold was reached and they don't know how to keep composure in public.

On a lighter note, Valerian has this one specific Deftones song that, if heard, makes him go from "yeah, Val's around. He's kinda nearby," to "Oh God. He's right behind me, isn't he?"

[atypi-cals]

If you want to, 3, 6 and 12 for the disabled ask game!

3. what, if any, disability aids do you use? (mobility aids, sensory aids, braces, communicative devices, IVs, etc. meds also count here). do you customize them/their containers/outsides?

We use forearm crutches, compression gloves, and Speech Assistant AAC. We don't really decorate our devices. We used to put stickers on our cane, but didn't like the way they looked when they peeled. (We don't use a cane anymore. Our body needs more support than a cane can offer.) So we don't really customize them anymore, but we'd maybe like to get a set of custom gloves someday.

6. what's something good that's come out of being disabled?

We're able to recognize a lot of problems in society and break a lot of the ableist mindset that it really pushes these days in a way I don't think we'd have been able to if we hadn't had to fight for our rights.

12. what's something (a struggle, a symptom, a weird phenomenon, or even a funny experience) people don't realize about your disability?

We sound like rice krispie. Like, when we say our joints crack a lot, people seem to understand that as "we can crack a lot of our joints" which, while also true, is not what we mean by that. We can do literally any tiny little movement and it will make a huge cracking sound. Our shoulders and hips startle people the most.