darlinguistics

[darlinguistics]

i cant think of the fact that humans send messages saying ’where are you? who are you?’ from earth to the giant and empty space all around us for too long because it makes me cry so hard and feel so human and lonely

[darlinguistics]

“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine”

Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University

https://crimethinc.com/Columbia2024

In this in-depth report, participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the events at Columbia, appraising the tactics that the demonstrators have employed and the challenges that they face.

[darlinguistics]

my fave thing about being alive is that there is nothing that cannot be learned. tapestry weaving, astrophysics, swimming. music, theremin, singing. cutting your own hair, dancing, quantum mathematics. sewing, philosophy, social skills. knowledge is divine, but sharing it is human !!!

[darlinguistics]

No one is discrediting the student protests. I myself am a student who is partaking in largely student-coordinated protests, drives, campaigns… but I also understand that we are largely missing the point if coverage of these protests overshadows what they are actually protesting for—the atrocities committed on Palestinians every single day. As the western buzz around this genocide gets more and more coverage, the coverage of the genocide itself sharply declines. It’s true and I see it every single day. Things are not being reported with the precision and diligence they should be.

[darlinguistics]

Sometimes I remember absolutely rancid takes that I've seen and I feel the need to rebuke them, so here we go.

Not all autistic people get along better with other autistic people. Not even *most* autistic people get along better with other autistic people. Autistic people do not inherently make more sense communication-wise, and autistic people are not inherently easier to communicate with.

I'm saying this, and I need you(general autistic side of tumblr you) to really pay attention to this. If someone could throw in some reading comprehension questions that'd be great because I really need people to understand this.

Autistic people are not inherently better at communicating. Not better then allistic folks or neurotypical folks, not better then anyone. "Good communication" is very subjective, but even with the most inclusive definition, it still isn't true for every autistic person. Autism is, in part, a communication disability. An entire section of the diagnostic criteria involves your ability to communicate with others, and it's not just "can't do small talk, speaks their mind, tells the truth, a lil quirky". It includes people with:

No functional communication of any kind, even the most adapted AAC.

Cannot speak ever.

Cannot say what they want to say, says the opposite of what they want(apraxia, either of speech or in general)

Cannot understand others.

Cannot use nonverbal communication such as body language, facial expressions, or gestures.

Cannot understand *any* social cues or signals, cannot understand *any* nonliteral speech.

And many many more things.

I struggle with communicating with *everyone*. Every single person on Earth. I have never met anyone who I can *easily* communicate with, or even anyone who communicating with is slightly less hard. Yes, this includes other autistic people. Autistic people also make their own unspoken social rules and cues, they're just a bit different then neurotypical social rules/cues.

Autistic people are not better communicators just because of autism.

Stop saying that.

Please.

[darlinguistics]

When you first start learning a language the meaning of all of the words that you learn depend entirely on the equivalent word in a language you speak, and without that word to give it a meaning it would just be a random sound to you, but later on you don’t need that equivalent word for the new words you’ve learned to have meaning anymore and they just exist on their own in your brain without attachment to any other languages and I think that that’s my definition of fluency, when the words stop depending on another language for meaning in your mind

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Ok guys.

If a parent says their child has profound or severe autism, and the parent is nice and supportive and definitely not a bad or shitty parent….

Then them saying profound or severe isn’t dehumanizing, they simply state the diagnosis.

Then it simply means that you have to pay attention to certain things when interacting with their child because otherwise the social interaction will inevitably fail.

Profound or severe autism is a bad word if you yourself think that it’s bad to be profoundly or severely autistic. “I think it’s dehumanizing to say they have profound autism” - it’s their fucking diagnosis, just because words have negative connotations because of certain people doesn’t mean it’s generally bad to say it. It’s the same like people who say special needs because they think disabled is a bad word. Do you think we are “a bad thing”? Because if you don’t, you make it sound like it.

[darlinguistics]

here’s to disabled people who can’t speak/struggle to speak. wether it be a physical thing, mental thing, or both, it’s okay. you’re not any less a person for it.

[darlinguistics]

👜 working student diaries // as life keeps passing by 🍜

요즘 날씨 더 따뜻해. 그리고 인생은 천천히 가는지 기분해. 조금 심심해… 근데 그래도 빨리 가는지 또 안 싶어. 어쩌겠어? 다른 일주일 이렇게 지나간다 🍃 (these days, the weather is warmer. and life is going slowly, i feel. i'm a little bored... but still, i don't want it to go faster again. what should i do? another week passes by like this 🍃)

👩‍💻 coding things~

🤝 help colleagues debug issue

💻 planning meetings (2x)

🐞 bug investigations (2x)

🎧 잘생겨은 남자의 한국어 말은 들어라 🤭 (listen to a handsome man speak Korean 🤭) 1, 2

🏋️‍♀️ upper body workout

🇰🇷🇯🇵🇨🇳 language lessons (3x)

🧠 developmental psychology reading

💌: 오늘도 수고했어요! (today, too, thank you for your hard work!)

[darlinguistics]

love "et cetera" like... theres soooo much more. beyond your wildest imaginations. Not gonna tell u what tho. Move on

[darlinguistics]

it easy change my voice on AAC.

easier than mouth speak people.

go to setting. go to voices. look, there entire lists. you can try them on like coats in mall. if don’t like them, in press of button you can have something new.

some, can change pitch. can make deeper. can make higher. can make faster. can make slower.

world in your tablet.

it hard change my voice on AAC.

my AAC. is my voice. is identity.

can change with press of button. but not so easy. we have history. my identity entangled with how AAC sound. how i sound.

change voice feel like loss of identity. feel empty. feel lost. feel like line carve in stone, divide me in past and future.

it hard change my voice on AAC.

do speaking people have to choose from limited list of pre synthesized voices? do speaking people run into other speaking people with same. exact. voice as them, same pronounciation errors, same annunciations, same tone, same exclamation?

do speaking people have to compromise within self and share that same voice with other people, a voice that yours but never fully yours?

it hard change my voice on AAC.

mouth speak people. as they age. mature. grow old. switch context. voice naturally changes. voice grows with them.

mine stops. mine frozen in time.

transition from one life stage to another. should i change a voice? to make pallatable for people around me, more professional, more mature, more “taken seriously,” but lose self in process?

it hard change my voice on AAC.

many choices for “standard” (< white) american (< USA) english. many choices for british english. some choices for spanish.

where my diaspora accents? where my languages?

can my friend not speak their mother tongue?

- thank you for give me outlet for voice, but you all that i have

from nonverbal full time aac user

(as in nonverbal all the time)

[darlinguistics]

a mindset that helped me a quite a bit in the past and still presently whenever studying a language gets really difficult or overwhelming or you feel like you are making no progress/not retaining anything or that its all pointless is that 1, there is literally nothing wrong with slowly learning a language. and more importantly, 2, sometimes shit needs time to sink in! i remember finishing korean 101 feeling genuinely like i had learned basically nothing and still struggled with the most easy concepts but! when 102 came along suddenly focusing on new material made me realize that the old stuff became intuitive! and that same pattern happens over and over, where a concept seems so awkward and complicated and impossible to grasp and then a few months later while focusing on an entirely different concept i realize the old confusing things are somehow now the 'easy' part that comes naturally! so i guess basically what im saying is i learned to MOVE ON! let yourself zoom out from this one little piece of the language and see the pieces surrounding it and overlapping with it! if a lesson was hard, good! it should have been! you probably wont feel confident in it during or even right after! but the work and energy you put into it isnt a waste just cuz it doesnt immediately pay off, sometimes you have to look away and just move on and trust that the knowledge will settle itself comfortably into your brain while you work on other things, especially if you keep reinforcing it here and there. consistent work will never be a waste even if you dont get immediate payoff. and one day youll wonder when the hell you got so quick at reading or when you memorized a rule or when you learned something you literally were never taught but just observed with your own intuition. so much of language learning is trusting yourself, and trusting this invisible force and process of learning thats bigger than you. it isnt all up to conscious studying and conscious effort and learning, you also need to give yourself time to unconsciously internalize things. and that takes much much longer than a week-long grammar lesson!!

#i know a lot of this is common knowledge/wisdom for language learning but still #no harm in hammering some points home! esp when theyre true!! #langblr #lingblr #korean #studyblr #the time will pass anyway etc etc #not to get overly deep but this also is part of why i really attribute some of my emotional wellbeing/mental health to learning a language #cuz it taught me how to like.. consider my future self #and like understand that im not just living in the present trying to survive but that also im working toward a future version of myself #idk does that make sense ill stop trying to be profound now lol #🌟.txt

[darlinguistics]

I mean that about sums it up

#genuinely wouldnt question anything if i received this email

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[darlinguistics]

For this autism awareness/acceptance month, let’s listen and support nonspeaking, nonverbal, and mute autistic people.

Let’s listen to them, interact with them, and support them. Let’s educate others on their terms that verbal people shouldn’t be using. Let’s uplift their voices. Let’s celebrate and center them. Let’s talk about those who can’t communicate via AAC and alternative communication. Let’s talk about the more marginalized nonspeaking/nonverbal/mute autistic people. The POC nonspeaking/nonverbal/mute people. The trans nonspeaking/nonverbal/mute people. The queer nonspeaking/nonverbal/mute people. The high support needs nonspeaking/nonverbal/mute people.

Let’s center them, talk about them, and celebrate their achievements, accomplishments, and just for being here and being them.

[darlinguistics]

For anyone who is semi verbal, nonverbal, or otherwise struggles with speech, please know that there are people who will accept your methods of communication. There are people who won't infantilize you for using AAC, communication cards, making noises instead of words, etc. There are people who won't expect you to pick the mask up again when you stop being so 'talkative'. There are people who don't mind waiting for you to sort your thoughts, and are happy to include you in the conversation.

There are people who accept you as yourself, and I don't just mean toleration.

[darlinguistics]

Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:

• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.

• Baby Gronk was mentioned.

• We discussed the Rizzler.

• “Cunty” was nominated.

• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.

• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”

• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.

• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”