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Just spent over an hour explaining to my friend’s IEP team that when she goes nonverbal, taking it personally and doubling down is stupid. I still don’t think they got it.

Anonymous 21h

hey! just so you know, nonverbal isn’t a temporary state, and nonverbal people and their carers have asked the broader autistic community to stop using it this way. the term to use instead is “verbal shutdown” /nm /lh

Anonymous 21h

Lmao people don’t understand that going nonverbal isn’t “getting an attitude with them” they just overstimulated

Anonymous

#2 18h

i use the term selectively mute to describe it when that happens to me, but i’ve found a lot of the time people don’t understand that the selective part isn’t actually selective