Maybe I'm The Only One Who Needs To Hear This, But If You're Semi Verbal And Use Your Voice As Your Main

Maybe I'm the only one who needs to hear this, but if you're semi verbal and use your voice as your main source of communication by 'default', that doesn't mean you're not semi verbal. I've gotten so used to using mouth words that I can, for the most part, force sentences out in bursts (which ends up fucking me over regardless of if it doesn't hit immediately). I speak in full sentences at the expense of my energy (and mood, and sensory threshold), because I feel self conscious otherwise. My thing is, if I can't speak in full sentences in a situation I just don't speak at all (which contributes to me avoiding social situations because it can get strenuous to hold a conversation, and fast).

I've been forcing speech less, though, because I'm working on undoing harmful habits from my masking; if I don't feel up to cranking words out, I will write my words down on paper or a whiteboard, or pull out my phone and contribute through texting. Sure it's frustrating to feel like I take more time to contribute when I technically could physically say my sentence (which, honestly, takes time too because I go around in circles and freeze and jumble words unless the sentence is a simple 'thank you' or a yes/no, or three words), but it has helped immensely to surround myself with people who are willing to take that time with me.

This post is to remind every aroace being that they are cool and fine just the way you are. You are not less of a being for being romance and/or sex repulsed (if applicable), and you're not less aroace for being romance and/or sex favorable (if applicable). You deserve a space in this life, in queer communities, and aroace communities regardless of the amount of attraction you feel, if you're favorable, repulsed or something else, or if you seek/don't seek relationships with anybody.

This post is also for aroace systems with aroace fictives! Reminder that a fictive is their own person and, even if they are aroace like their source they may or may not be the same *kind* of aroace.

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Right corndogs if this gets 300 notes I'll buy a collar

I am foaming at the mouth right now because this is exactly how I feel??????? Holy fuck thank you for this

Dysirgirl

[pt: Dysirgirl /end pt]

[ids: 2 rectangular flags with 7 equally-sized horizontal wavy lines. colors in this order from top to bottom: dark blue-green, blue-green, light blue-green, white, light pink, darkish pink, dark pink. in the center of the first flag is a dark blue-green-to-dark pink venus woman symbol, turned slightly on its side, and wavy, outlined in white. /end id]

Dysirgirl: a gender (& possible dysphorigirl (link) subterm) for identifying as a girl, but also feeling dysphoric about it/being perceived/associated as a girl, due to: not being aligned with femininity and/or woman-hood, being alterhuman/nonhuman, being genderqueer, being mutligender, being genderweird, being genderfluid, etc.

Etymology: dys(phoria), “ir” latin for not, girl

for anon!

@radiomogai , @thecoffeecrew404

[id: a dark blue line divider. /end id]

Imagine a massive dog approaches you and just fucking goes 'miaw :3'

I'm so GNC that I'm deadass just a dude

Image id: rectangular flag with six stripes that are, in order, : dark violet, medium reddish magenta, medium pinkish red, pale yellow, light reddish orange /end id

pt: salilian/end pt

salilian

pronounciation : sah-lil-e-an

a term for those who are gnc lesbians! meant to be a lesbian version of lavenian

requested by anon!

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