After an interesting time trying to educate Melbourne City Council on sensory processing issues again and being thrown under a bus by them because I didn’t respond quickly enough to their officers wanting to inspect my home because I was struggling with shut down and trying to work (but hey! they are the AUTHORITY) – and then my complaint being disregarded, here we are, reposting this again.
So, coming up is International Day of People With Disabilities. And for me it’s also my 50th Birthday.
Here’s a list of gifts that would be nice:
- Stop picking on people for how they speak or don’t speak.
- Stop picking on people for how they speak or don’t speak.
- Stop picking on people for how they speak or don’t speak.
- The above on repeat until people start recognising that communication is multi layered, not just dependent on speech.
I sit on the more socially acceptable side of this, being hyperverbal, but I do experience shut down and need more silence and then I am interpreted as rude when I go quiet for days at a stretch. I struggle with tone and pitch, I speak too fast and I get word order “wrong” (whatever that means). Modifying this is exhausting, not just metaphorically, but physically exhausting.
Most of my meltdowns are…
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