#speech things

[ejzah]

Me, watching an unsuspecting show: THEY’RE VOCAL FOLDS!

[ejzah]

Preschooler, playing with blocks: If you win, you get a prize.

Me: Ooh, what prize do I get?

Preschooler: A bath bomb.

Kids are maybe a little too sophisticated these days.

[scarletslippers]

Do you say “a whole other” like “that’s a whole other problem”

Or do you say “a whole ’nother” as if the word ‘whole’ is an adjective that got lost and found its way into the word ‘another’?

Just wondering.

[god-damn-i-tried-alright]

Does anyone else

Does anyone else create speeches while walking around your room that you’ll never get the opportunity to give or remember how it goes? Or am I just crazy... yeahhhhhh I’m crazy

But honestly if I turned on a text to speech every time I did that I would have a good pockets worth of speeches about women’s rights, pro choice, rights in general, the damn wall, and other things I can’t remember at this moment.

Should I start turning on a text to speech thing when I feel the need to talk to myself?

[wond3rstruk]

Today, my 7 year old client yelled at me that I “am mean and not letting [her] be happy and live a happy life” while hiding under a table from me. Mostly because was asking her to say her r-words but also because I didn’t have enough pink and blue beads to add to her necklace.

[faggotisaacfloofs]

okay so like one of the very common autistic traits is basically like difference in speech - some autistics never speak using their mouthparts, some can only use them sometimes, some can’t use their mouth parts to express what they want to express, some have trouble with volume and intonation, etc etc etc

and like, i have been realizing that my natural speech is very abnormal 

and i grew up learning how to speak in a way that was acceptable and wouldn’t draw attention to me  - being a highly anxious child from the moment i was born, my goal was always to be indistinguishable from my peers

but since i started living with kai and rei, and slowly broke down the ableist rules that were so ingrained in me, i have developed a way of speaking that is much more comfortable and natural to me. 

it started as a very subtle thing, usually starting with echolalic phrases (which are the majority of my natural speech anyway) but then growing into lots of my self-scripted speech 

and now i have a much more natural and enjoyable way of speaking but i notice that i am only capable of using it around kai, rei, our one floof friend, and the parent friend who is the floof who comes to all the autism meetings and is gr9. 

i occasionally use it when i am with my immediate family but not my older brothers or my dad i think 

anyway, i want to take a video of me speaking with my natural speech because i think it is super cool that after 21 years i am finally able to have my own speech 

but i also feel very vulnerable using it because i think it is more “childish” and more obviously autistic/neurodivergent and i am worried people will think things about me or say things to me and i do not want that and i don’t want to be infantalized 

[hellsmadhatter]

birthday and speech hype!

[prof-grace-aspen]

I hate the thing where someone says something and initially, going into your ears it sounds like absolute garbled nonsense, you understand none of it and,

“What?” 

comes out of your mouth before your brain has time to process what they said. 

So a second later they’re repeating themselves but now your brain has figured out what they said the first time so you cut them off mid-sentence like,

“Oh RIGHT yeah yeah”. 

I hate that. What the hell IS that? It’s so annoying. Also it makes me sound like an asshole when I cut people off.