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#this girl made a video titled “when my family dont expect me to go nonverbal the rest of the day after telling me to shut up”
beneaththegildedmoon · 5 months
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It's so impossible to interact with people online in a normal way and i don't understand why
#this girl made a video titled “when my family dont expect me to go nonverbal the rest of the day after telling me to shut up”#but she meant like#voluntarily choosing not to speak to them for the rest of the day#not actually going nonverbal#so i politely pointed out that hey that term has a very specific meaning#and that it can hurt those of us who struggle with going nonverbal when people portray it as just a choice bc we cant help it#the amount of times ive been yelled at for not replying when im nonverbal bc the person thinks im just choosing to be rude and not answer#and this random person who said they were also autistic came into my replies to tell me im an idiot#because non verbal just means “without speech” and non-verbal communication exists#so i tried to point out that i didnt say the word nonverbal itself is a problem in general#just that the phrase “going nonverbal” is specific to the experience of involuntarily losing your use of speech#so it is incorrect and a bit ablist to throw it around willy-nilly and dilute what it actually means#and then they had a go at me because “you people” are always changing definitions on a whim#and im getting dogpiled by the original video creator and a bunch of other people#like i wasnt even rude at first i just pointed out that thats not what the phrase means#so now im shaking bc im so mad at someone who claims to be autistic themselves going so far out of their way to defend the creator#but now my body is just filling up with the anger and i feel like my skin is covered in electricity#amd it has nowhere to go bc i blocked the creator to stop myself carrying on bc i could feel myself getting overinvested
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