Can’t speak.

[Mach123]

I do the same thing only I talk too much. It accomplishes the same thing as silence. Every now and then I get around to something. It comes when it's ready. You can't force it. I did some therapy years before I was ready and I gave up because I couldn't get in there it wasn't ready. It's really hard to get it to come out!

 

[Friday]

It accomplishes the same thing as silence

<chuckling> Ever heard the phrase?

"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." ;)

Same vein. Fastest way I know to get people to stop listening to me, is to keep talking, preferably? At speed.

 

[Butterflies2023]

I cried before I could talk...I wrote letters and kept it to 3 pages of legal pad before I could talk...I had libations to ease the talk. At first in whispers, then staccato statements, clumsy and uncomfortable. Today still clumsy but normal tone and more casual.

Writing is what saved me at the time I needed to communicate. I stuck the pages in an envelope and dropped it in the T's mailbox....to discuss at the next session. Very helpful. There has been much growth during the 6.5 years and upon returning I can talk casually and in normal voice. However, word search is difficult and writing has always been easier. Thoughts to spoken words are more difficult than thoughts to written words.