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9:58pm August 24, 2014
Anonymous asked: You've written before about being verbal/nonverbal and how most autistic people are in between (rather than being 100% one or the other). I was recently diagnosed but verbal-ness is a bit confusing to me. I'm not sure that I've ever been nonverbal. Is that possible? Is it possible I've been nonverbal without realising (or without other people realising)? Is there anything I may be missing or forgetting when I try to think about this? (cont)

(cont) I’m 19 and I’ve had a relatively fortunate upbringing with very accommodating family. So is it possible I’ve never been in a bad/overwhelming/unpleasant enough situation to cause me to go nonverbal? Thank you if you are able to help ~

It’s quite possible that you really are 100% verbal, or close enough that it doesn’t matter.  (It’s also possible that the times that you’re not verbal, have coincided with times when you didn’t really need to be talking anyway.  That happens too, where autistic people’s brains plan their downtime really efficiently.)

Either way, it does happen, it’s just rarer than people imagine for people to be 0% or 100%.  But both do exist.  I didn’t mean to make you feel like a total outlier though.

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