Verbal Shutdown - Tumblr Posts

Nothing makes me realize how much of a know-it-all I am more than verbal shutdowns.

Like, people will say blatantly wrong shit and I just have to sit there silently unable to correct them.

Am semiverbal, & also experience situational mutism/speech loss/shutdown thingy sometimes. Agree. They are 2 different things.

Also I can experience additional speech issues due to breathing tics & breathing issues.

There are a bunch of experiences related to speech being hard; and they are different experiences which deserve different names.

Before describing being semi verbal if you are fully verbal:

Hate when people try to describe being semi verbal as just "its when you have speech loss sometimes! :) " no , semi verbal isn't "sometimes speech loss" other wise it would just be "speech loss episode " or something , no semi verbal is a permanent state , semi verbal is more like : have difficulty specking not the way people seem to think . Easiest explanation is : unreliable speech all the time , I can talk but its hard for me , its more than just "speech loss sometimes" its like need words but the thought of the word won't form and I feel like my mouth is wired shut like forcing it to open to make a word. I just seen this description of it and please stop trying to simplify being semi verbal when you aren't and are actually describing it incorrectly as just "losing speech" . Being semi verbal doesn't equal "just speech loss" . Even when I do talk I have a very specific way of talking , a bit hard to explain but a lot of pauses obvious struggling , I've seen a youtuber that is also semi verbal and I talk like them more or less