Are you more of a “talk like a textbook and pronounce every single syllable” or a “chew my words until it’s coming out all garbled” autistic person ?
The former, but my metamour is 100% the latter, and I think it’s super cute how my partner is dating both ends of the spectrum.
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#garbled #I’d like to be an enunciator but it just doesn’t work #(although) #(I wonder how much of my garbling is *actually* some kind of natural baseline) #(and how much of it is an adaptation to being unable to receive *or send* conversational turn-taking signals) #(perhaps this is just the speaking style that results) #(when you take as a given that people *will* talk over you) #(and try to rush as many words out as possible before that happens) #(…maybe I *don’t* want to be an enunciator) #that excuse for communication called speech #autism
Brinens and Things 