Published on 12, July, 2020
Collectively as autists, and as a wider society. We need to stop assuming/pressuming other people's ability to function and support needs. Especially online. We are all strangers. Nobody here really knows what it is like to live our lives when we step away from the computer. What we tell people here is just snippets and the basis of absolutely nothing anyone else can say or prescribe with anything other than a faux qualification. Especially the assumption that someone's ability to communicate in a text based format means they do not go or are not in fact nonverbal irl, or has any bearing on the other areas of their life.
That's really it. That's the post.
Yes, agreed. This text based communication is very different to how I present in a face to face situation, people also treat me differently face to face.
It's better to use the term non-vocal as people who don't speak can still use words
Good point, the distinction in terminology is important.
Boika said:It's better to use the term non-vocal as people who don't speak can still use words
Or nonspeaking/minimally speaking.
https://neuroclastic.com/on-using-nonspeaking-minimally-speaking-or-unreliably-speaking-over-non-verbal-nonspeakers-weigh-in/