Mouth Noise

Being nonspeaking is beyond awful in so many ways certainly, most obvious but some more subtle. Having no ability to talk most of the time is incredibly stressful. Having to be reliant upon others for everything is humiliating beyond belief. Having to allow others to have access to us in the bathroom is degrading. Plus, there is the lack of autonomy. I cannot make a single decision for myself. Having behavior issues, in terms of my OCD, is like the cherry on the sundae. 


But wait!  There’s more! No matter how much I show people I am intelligent, they continue to talk to me like I am an idiot. Every day I must hear ten thousand times that it’s not time for pizza. I can’t stop my mouth from saying, “I want pizza,” and you only have to spend five minutes with me to realize that. I can be eating a hamburger, which is my favorite food, and my mouth will be saying, “I want pizza.”  Obviously I don’t want pizza, so why are you telling me that it’s not time for pizza, like I am a moron. It’s beyond annoying to me.

No one who spends any time with we nonspeakers, and who believes in our intelligence, believes that mouth noise is anything but noise.