while me post most about nonverbal nonspeaking because intellectual/developmental disabilities, here something about become nonspeaking after/because medical crisis in 2022 & tracheotomy & muscular dystrophy, by alice wong.
overview: “This is a 2-3 minute audio letter to the late David Muir, a disabled man who invented the Passy Muir® Valve, an attachment that enables people with tracheostomies to speak. As a newly nonspeaking person, this letter allows me to share my thoughts on the desire to speak and reflections on silence.”
I paused to consider the phrase “dignity through speech.” There is dignity in silence too. Silence does not mean a person is voiceless, as there are millions of nonspeaking people who use gestures, sign language, writing, technology, and other means to communicate with the world.
I live in a world of silence that is not lesser or devoid of richness. My reality is just different. Silence forces me to be more thoughtful and intentional in considering what I want to say and how I say it when I type into my speech-to-text app, which listeners to this letter are hearing now.
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The worlds of speech and silence intersect and overlap. Silence isn’t static or limiting. Silence is not an empty void. Silence has a landscape of its own. Silence has its own dimension, a space that enables another way of thinking and being. There is dignity in all forms of communicating.
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Something slightly suggestive..
Tracheotomy indulgance so to speak
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Is there a better place than public transit to discuss the logistics of strangling someone and weater or not they could give themselves a Tracheotomy during that to remain breathing with a med student?
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TRACHEOTOMY UPD8!
New plot developments in this latest update, i;m on the edge of my fucking seat, vriska is there, and i think so is the president, and maybe mario, and some other guys???? wow, insane!
Read it here!
Or start here if you're a new reader!-ahahahaha fucking got you, no update tonight it's april god damn fools
i got you good, you thought vriska would be in this comic?? vriska would NEVER be in this comic ahahahahaha
fucking PRNAKED
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idk about y'all but i see special agent strahm in a leather jacket with violence in his eyes and i feel like making several lapses of judgement and fucking him up an entire operation, might be just me tho
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i would so die in the water cube trap i can freely admit this
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