#wsp talk

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@lunabrainbad I think kinda like

This is a Grocery store

It has stuff from farmers close around and its run by a human or a family and it has one place to buy stuff or maybe 2 if its big and its run by a HUMAN

This is a supermarket

Its big like a warehouse and its got tiles and stuff and its got LOTS of stuff from all over world in packets and things and its run by a brand not a human or family and theres more than 1 or 2 checkouts theres a bunch . maybe even self checkouts

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I have had a little bag of personal hygiene stuff like plasters deodorant hand sanitiser stuff in my school bag that my mum started a couple years ago and it has been useful for my friends as well and now i am at a co ed school not a single sex school So i am friends with some girls now not just guys so i am putting pads in the bag because some times people need them as a surprise so is there any other stuff u guys can think of that guys dont really use but girls do?? ^-^

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Better specific poll cause my first one was too specific on accident o_o

All 4 of my grand parents came from different countries

My youngest cat is over 10

I’ve been in Australia for more than 6 months

I electric shocked my self by putting my finger in a light socket as a kid

Ive touched an octopus not at a zoo or aquarium

I was born in February 2004

My family made our own cheese and butter growing up

I went to an all boys school

More than one

None

Voting ended onApr 21, 2023

I hope this is better

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12 April: Were/are you in speech therapy? If so, for what?

Yeah I was from age like I think 18 months to 15 or 16 years old

It was for speech delay at the start cause Id only said a few words I think they were car dada mama so speech therapy to try get me to start talking trying to get me to make connections between words and meanings like that this sound means this object. It wasn’t completely speech this was mostly symbol based like theyd teach me words by saying the word and showing me a picture card of the thing until I got that that sound and that card meant the same thing

Then after I figured that out it was just getting a bigger vocabulary learning words like yes ok no stop help good bad want around this time was when I started doing makaton at preschool so 3 ish which has speech and symbols and sign so after Ive figured out what those words mean start learning how to say and sign them so then it was teaching me how to move my mouth to make the right noises and some occupational therapy help to move my hands right to make the signs because more complicated than pointing to pictures and I was not coordinated

Then after that trying to get a bigger vocabulary of speech not just symbols so basically learning more things like stuff around the house and people and activities which kind of went well that they could show me the thing and I would name it out loud but kind of didnt go well that I wouldnt say the things independently because I hadnt figure out other people yet like that they had minds or thoughts or feelings and that I could make them know?

Then I started speaking in sentences of more than 2 words when I was around 6 and just supplement with sign and symbols so then there was more building vocabulary and moving my mouth to make the right sounds because I didnt say some sounds right

Then after I was saying letters right more building vocabulary and learning connecting words that u cant really show with symbols like that and to of and things like that

Then more building vocabulary actually Im gonna stop saying building vocabulary every sentence because I did that the whole way through to the very end

Then more like working on fluency and pattern and tone and keeping volume down lol cause I wasnt fluent I spoke with big gaps in my sentences and no flow like words right after each other like Today I went. To the supermarket and pattern like just idk saying it right idk how to describe that and tone like when you ask a question you make your voice go up at the end? And when youre saying a sentence you make it go down at the end. And volume because I SHOUTED ALL THE TIME

After that until the end yeah it was really just building vocabulary and doing more complicated things of the things i said

We were still working on not using symbol cards when I finished but they decided it wasnt really a speech thing as much as a brain thing because it was like

If the example was what sports do you like doing?

I would just sit there brain empty like I know what sports are and I know what liking things means but I can not think of a single sport

So I would just sit there and stare at her and not say any thing

But if she put cards out on the table that had like soccer kapa haka rugby hockey waka ama swimming kīorahi running I could select cards or I could read out the ones I liked doing

So it wasnt a speech thing that I needed the cards I could say the words just fine it was a brain thing that I couldnt think of the word for the sport OR for the sport AT ALL so that wasnt speech or language problem just like a memory or knowing things without prompted problem

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6 April: Can you understand what people say when they talk fast, or do you lose track after a while? Was it different when you were younger?

No I cant.......... but people normally talk slow to me without me having to say any thing just on their own

And it changes on how young i was cause I use to not understand that words had meanings instead of just being sounds and then when I knew words had meanings I couldnt get it in sentences at all even slow cause need to stop and think after hearing the noise what the meaning of that noise is... u know?? And then I couldnt understand once i got able to do it faster and more automatically because people talking is not clear to me

It still isnt but ive got a LOT SO MUCH better I can watch some videos without subtitles and stuff and hear every thing said I mostly just need help with fast talking or accents or speech impediments or fuzzy sounding talking like the voice on the train and plane that says whats happening or through speakers but I think most people cant understand what the train guy is saying in the train speakers

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Still having fun with this from a poll i saw AGES ago lmao

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Pick n mix and hot cross bun with no raisins

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This morning sebastian accidentally took his night medications instead of his morning ones which has inside it melatonin ( sleep med ) + quetiapine ( not sleep med but makes him sleepy ) + prazosin ( also not sleep med but makes him sleepy ) and hes been gone from the lounge for like a hour and I just went to get some thing in our room and i opened the door and he is just full fucking conked out sleeping on the floor