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12:44pm August 31, 2014

lukesmithismyroommate:

Does anyone know of any blogs that talk about being autistic and nonverbal?

Non tumblr blogs are great. I’m taking a disability studies class and we have to do a presentation on a disabled person’s blog.

I would like to do one by someone else that’s autistic since that’s what I’m familiar with, and I think nonverbal people’s viewpoints don’t get discussed enough.

I’m autistic and nonverbal.  But I have not been nonverbal all my life, I have a condition called autistic catatonia that causes some people to lose speech at some point later on (in my case I lost it very gradually, but it was gone by my early twenties – I also had a lot of communication problems even when I had speech, so there’s nothing straightforward about this at all).  As long as you understand that (and don’t try to paint me as someone who’s always been nonverbal), there’s my blog on tumblr, and also I have a blog at http://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com

There’s also Amy Sequenzia, at http://nonspeakingautisticspeaking.blogspot.com/

I think she’s always been nonverbal, if that makes a difference to you.