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cripplecharacters · 22 hours
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Good morning/evening to y'all!
In your list of frequently asked questions, there was no mention of speech disorders? I was wondering if you answer questions for that too? I'm sorry to bother you if you don't.
If you do, I have two things I'd like to ask, if you don't mind!
First of all, my character is a 4-year-old boy with a stutter from brain trauma. How much does age affect this? Are there better to be cured or is it more severe? What would be the best sort of action from parents towards child?
Secondly, what does stuttering feel like, physically? Does it include tightness in the throat, thirst, numbness, or anything like that?
Thank you all.
Hello,
Yes, we have at least one mod with a speech disorder and I can answer them.
Depending on how old he was when the trauma occurred, he may not even realize that he does it. Some things, like the multiple syllable repetition unless he has a more minor form of it, he may notice and feel frustrated with, but stuttering can also include pauses and drawing sounds out which he may not even notice. Because he has the injury now, when he's still learning language like a sponge soaking in water, it's going to be harder to treat. In my experience, speech therapy that started when I was five never managed to actually improve the way I spoke. It's harder to improve in this situation- possible, to my knowledge, but harder.
Curing a stutter from a traumatic brain injury is going to be difficult. It's not likely and it's probably not something his speech therapist would even consider- when there's a lot wrong with speech and there's a reason behind it that can't be worked around, like a TBI, sometimes a speech therapist will just focus on trying to improve one aspect, or they might not even bother at all. If getting rid of his stutter is the goal, that's going to take years of work and it might not fix everything. It can be a severe condition- some people can have a severe stutter from the brain injury- but mostly it's just hard to treat because we have a permanent modification to how our brain works.
The best sort of actions his parents can take is listen to him. It might be frustrating for people to listen to someone who stutters and they might experience isolation because people don't want to talk to or listen to them, it does so much to have even one person in your life who will listen to you speak without impatience, interrupting, or ignoring. Because he's also going into school, listening to him is really important. School is very difficult for people with speech disabilities (for all disabled people, really.) He may experience teachers who are impatient or ableist, or he might experience isolation from his peers or even bullying. It's important his parents listen to him about any issues he may be facing so that they can step in and advocate him. They're the most important people for him to have in his corner. Listening to and communicating with any child is important, but it's very important that his parents listen to and communicate with him. At the very least, it creates a safe place for him at home. At best, he'll talk to his parents about bullying and they can put up a big enough fuss that the issue will be resolved.
As for what it feels like, it feels like the mouth kind of pauses. Like you're trying to say something but there's a barrier in your mouth, so you have to force every sound through it, and that's hard to do. A lot of people who stutter report physically tensing up trying to speak, leading to tension aches wherever they tense, usually in the face or neck, and that tensing is kind of subconscious as if there really is a barrier and you need to physically force the words through the barrier.
As you try and get words out, you might become stressed or frustrated, and that usually makes the stutter worse, which just makes your frustration and anxiety worse. They feed on each other and it sucks.
People who stutter also might have what are called secondary symptoms, like the reflexive tension I mentioned earlier. These secondary symptoms can include grimacing, blinking, movement or another part of the body, like the arms, legs, or feet, issues maintaining eye contact or even issues looking at the person they're talking to at all, and changes in the pitch or volume of the voice. You might also see adaptive behaviours from the person trying to hide their stutter, such as using word substitutions, meaning replacing a word they might stutter on with one they can say easier, interjections such as uh, um, etc, filler words such as like, and quickly revising sentences to either hide a stutter or rephrase the sentence to make it easier to say, things like "I want- I'll have the pasta." Stuttering and those secondary behaviours can lead to him trying to avoid speaking, which he definitely shouldn't do (shouldn't avoid speaking, I mean.)
Also, you might want to consider exactly where the TBI was and how severe it was, because location and severity can also cause other symptoms. An injury to the cerebellum, for example, will impact his fine motor skills. Look into the areas around the specific places that control speech, too. If the injury was bad enough or at the right angle to hit those places, he'll also have symptoms associated with a TBI to those locations.
Thank you for sending this.
Mod Aaron
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A before & after comparison of my most recent edit!
Raw screenshot -> plus Gshade -> with extra editing.
I quite like the raw screenie aswell, but Gshade/Reshade brings SO much life and the desired atmosphere, it’s crazy how useful it is.
Also here’s my inspiration (is that even the right word in this context?) behind this edit, actually I wanted to kinda capture the vibes of this old one I did yeaaaars ago and make a new version.
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This is a joke.... Right....? RIGHT?!
How THE FUCK can you not tell Gloria is black?! And why the fuck did you put whitewash in quotations?! And what do you mean "Before you start controversies"?! Motherfucker you caused the controversy! You whitewashed an obvious black woman! Shes not white-passing! Shes black! Jesus fucking Christ!
Also "she's hot now and wasn't before" honey just say you are racist and go
And "She had clear skin and eyes in my game just like everyone else's vanilla!" Sweetie that means your game is having a white face bug and your games facegen data needs fixed what the fuck is wrong with you?! "I was quite surprised that she was black in the GECK!! 😱😱😱" Well yk if you had your facegen data be normal you would know she was always black you dumbfuck
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Moodboard of James Potter x Regulus Black.
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Some old sketches I made while working on the chief of the Hq (also Blu is Pins’ oc lol)… Chou can tell who is my fav chief here lol
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cripplecharacters · 3 days
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Hi! I want to send an ask, but it seems a bit too long. Is it okay for me to send longer asks? It's nothing complicated but just a question on something I'm doing with a character because I want to hear other POVs. I've summarized it but it's still quite a bit because I had to contextualize quite a little.
Sorry the text is pink, my tumblr is broke and decided to not show standard color text.
- "Vyacheslav" (quotation marks intended)
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Hi! I want to send an ask, but it seems a bit too long. Is it okay for me to send longer asks? It's nothing complicated but just a question on something I'm doing with a character because I want to hear other POVs. I've summarized it but it's still quite a bit because I had to contextualize quite a little.
Sorry the text is pink, my tumblr is broke and decided to not show standard color text.
"Vyacheslav" (quotation marks intended)
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Hello,
You can send longer asks, just be prepared for an answer to take a while and there may be need for elaboration. Longer asks mean longer answers that might also mean multiple mods working on them, but we'll answer to the best of our abilities. Although, if you have a character limit for asks, it might be best to send one question at a time to prevent a "part one of ninety-two" situation, because those are hard to keep track of
Mod Aaron
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moe-broey · 1 year
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Hoodie :) (plus today's outfit!)
Probably my fave piece of band merch from an aesthetic standpoint, so it was kind of scary to start fucking with it LMFAO
But also, as it was originally (regular pullover hoodie), I actually couldn't wear it comfortably cause of how it clung to me and bunched up in stupid ways (even though it's Supposed to be large 🙄)
For a while the only mods were the slits/patches on the sleeves and waist, but as it's been getting warmer and as I put A Lot of attention to like, the rest of my outfit a lot of the time, it's kind of a bummer to wear a pullover actually I feel like I would wear it more if it zipped. So. Implemented a zipper! 👍
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Oooh found these pics too!!! From the og mod!!
I was very careful to preserve the other hoodie I took the fabric from, cause I loved it dearly LMFAO and wanted to use it somehow in the future (wasn't exactly sure how at the time, though). The Original original hoodie is from middle school, and while like. It fit. It was absolutely too tight for my liking, esppp as I've developed a STRONG preference for baggy/loose clothes.
Ultimately the fit of it is a little weird, it's VERY top heavy LMFAO (I actually haven't figured out how to stitch the second hood on without bunching up the other hoodie since they're two different sizes, large and small -- it's just pinned via safety pins for now) but it is SO COZY. AND funky. AND THE DOUBLE POCKETS ARE SO COOL. Sewing that bit was really fun too! All of it is hand sewn, and just me figuring it out as I went.
ALSO.
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I absolutely took inspiration from these two Splatoon jackets in particular LMFAOOOOOO (patchwork bomber influence is p clear, combining several different jackets into one -- the dark bomber influence is more in how the hoodie is shaped, and in how the zipper doesn't completely meet the end of the jacket!)
All in all I just love it so much and so dearly and I'm really happy with the results!!!!
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New Sweeney Todd photos!!
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"Wow, okay, this is really happening. Every day I have to ask why me?"
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Official ref sheet for our very own manager at the Pizzaplex, Aaron Valentine! Permanently exhausted and not nearly paid enough to deal with any if this, he continues to try and do good for what little human staff remain.
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