#not speaking

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'Somehow, it's easier when people aren't on speaking terms with you,' Ariah said dryly.

Joyce Carol Oates, from The Falls

[partickleaccelerator]

STAND CLEAR STAND CLEAR!!! I HAVE ADDERALL AND A TICKLE FETISH AND THE WORST LER MOOD OF MY LIFE!

[wordmojiworld]

could you please make some emotes for something along the lines of “prefers not to speak”? its for a headmate of mine :}

Did a few variants, feel free to request more if these arent what you were looking for!

[vyvesvi]

okay............

[funbearer]

[flamingredanon]

SirRave: Randy is currently in surgery that will hopefully fix his eye sight. It's an hour and a half into the surgery when Wilford, Terrence and Henry hear a frantic commotion coming down the hall, Terrence and Wilford exchange a nervous glance with Henry clutching onto Wilford's shirt tighter. 30 minutes later a nervous doctor approaches them and delivers devestating news "I'm so sorry Sirs but I'm afraid the surgery was a failure and even worse your husband has had some sort of reaction and is now in a coma". The 3 of them are forced to go home and now must wait for Randy to wake. Terrence and Wilford become much protective of each other and their son but Henry is the one who takes it the worst and hasn't spoken one word since his pappy 'disappeared'. It takes 11 months for Randy to wake up.

Wilford and Terrence visit Randy whenever they could, telling him stories of the past or what Henry had been up to. Henry just sat next to his pappy, not saying a word but occasionally would hold his hand or just cry, he just wanted his pappy awake and back home.

At home, Henry didn't do much besides color in his coloring book or watch TV with his dads. Wilford and Terrence tried to take Henry out to have some fun, and for a few minutes, Henry would be happy and almost his joyful kid self. But eventually something would remind Henry of his pappy, and he would want to go home.

But eventually after almost a year since things went wrong, Wilford got a call from the hospital Randy was staying at, Randy had woken up from his coma. Terrence, Wilford and Henry were at the hospital in no time, and all they needed to see was that smile from Randy for everyone to break into ugly sobs. Randy saw the surgery didn't work, and while disappointed, he was thankful to be alive.

Randy had months of rehabilitation to go through due to being in a coma, but with a coach team of two wonderful husbands and his small son, he handled it with stride and soon was back home with his family.

Henry finally spoke again after over a year of silence, the spark in his eyes returning now that all three of his dads were back home.

[iibislintu]

I’m learning not to mask (see ”autistic masking” if you don’t what this means) at home, and this has led to some difficulties with my partner, like,

Yes they’re super supportive, but like basically everyone, they’ve been taught that losing speech is a bad thing and a symptom of something dangerous...

... when actually it’s me feeling so safe with them that I can let go of the mask and not speak, because speech costs me a TON of effort and it’s SO MUCH easier to text/write

[ID: post-it notes with messages scribbled on them in Finnish. End ID]

But then they think I’m in danger or something and I don’t want to spend a lot of energy (that I don’t have) to calm them down?