Please Please Please Dont Forget To Include Intellectual Disability, Psychosis / Schizospec Disorders,

please please please don’t forget to include intellectual disability, psychosis / schizospec disorders, level 2-3 autistics, folks w dissociative disorders, and others with “severe mental illness” from ur conversations about mad liberation.

these are some of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised mad people, and we need to give them a voice.

these are the places where liberation is needed the most

i love you

i love you autistics with caretakers

i love you autistics who need caretakers but don’t have them

i love you autistics whose motor control is too poor to feed yourself without assistance

i love you autistics with poor facial control and poor volume regulation and poor tone management

i love you autistics with terrible interoception

i love you autistics who stim in “gross”/“weird” ways

i love you autistics with loud and disruptive stims

i love you nonverbal/nonspeaking autistics

i love you unreliably speaking autistics

i love you autistics who have verbal shutdowns

i love you unpredictable autistics

i love you autistics who society pities and infantilizes

you are not a tragedy.

PSA

Some people who use a walking stick can walk without it.

Some people who use a wheelchair can walk.

Some people who sign/use computerised speech aids can speak.

Some people who use canes can see.

Some people who use subtitles can hear.

Stop policing accessibility.

These things are aids that improve the quality of life for people with a huge variety of needs, abilities, and challenges. We use these things to make a hard task easier, to make fun times more fun, to lessen pain, to improve communication. We shouldn’t have to wait until we’re completely unable to walk/see/hear/speak (etc) to access these things. We shouldn’t feel ashamed for needing help. There’s no magical line where you become “disabled enough”.

Stop policing accessibility.

Introduction

Hi, we (Charmeleon or Charizard) are plural. We are 2 souls in a Soulbond, who each have our own systems. We share a body and share this account.

Individually we are:

Char/Chard/Chaos - from this universe

and

Leon/Liz - from a somewhat similar but different universe

(We believe in the multiverse theory btw)

We have social paranoia & posting anywhere is always terrifying but we also want to express ourselves. We made this as a place for all of our system to be themselves if they want, at the pace they want. Especially for some parts of us to feel more real and humanized. We have been dehumanized a lot and relate to Voidpunk a lot.

We like talking about stuff and making art. Surrealism and/or horror art often.

@noodle-shenaniganery I promise I’m working on your ask about what “soul” is, I have just been way too sick to answer the way I want so will finish answering eventually

Am semiverbal, & also experience situational mutism/speech loss/shutdown thingy sometimes. Agree. They are 2 different things.

Also I can experience additional speech issues due to breathing tics & breathing issues.

There are a bunch of experiences related to speech being hard; and they are different experiences which deserve different names.

Before describing being semi verbal if you are fully verbal:

Hate when people try to describe being semi verbal as just "its when you have speech loss sometimes! :) " no , semi verbal isn't "sometimes speech loss" other wise it would just be "speech loss episode " or something , no semi verbal is a permanent state , semi verbal is more like : have difficulty specking not the way people seem to think . Easiest explanation is : unreliable speech all the time , I can talk but its hard for me , its more than just "speech loss sometimes" its like need words but the thought of the word won't form and I feel like my mouth is wired shut like forcing it to open to make a word. I just seen this description of it and please stop trying to simplify being semi verbal when you aren't and are actually describing it incorrectly as just "losing speech" . Being semi verbal doesn't equal "just speech loss" . Even when I do talk I have a very specific way of talking , a bit hard to explain but a lot of pauses obvious struggling , I've seen a youtuber that is also semi verbal and I talk like them more or less