Pyra Pretty 🌱
He’s a farmer who uses his produce to cook meals for the neighbors. He promotes healthy eating and sleep habits for children. His bestie is Kitty Stellar. She wears her signature skates and is always zooming through town helping others. She promotes exercise for children. They’re always seen together and share many interests, one such is trains.
Drew my cow sona once again!
Here’s the older one
He changed just a little lol
If you have speech issues due to brain fog or psychosis or schizophrenia spectrum or intellectual disability or aphasia or whatever reason love you forever. We are not stupid, we are not freaks, we are disabled (if you identify that way) and deserve to be normalized. Speak "strange" forever
-schizophrenic with somewhat constant disorganized speech and writing
I spoke with my therapist today and we agreed I’ve been experiencing a lot of thought broadcasting and ideas of reference lately. Here are some advice she gave me on the matter.
psa for this disability pride month
being delusional and psychotic is not some quirky personality thing
saying delulu is hurtful to actually delusional people
saying you are “so psycho” is harmful to actual psychotic people
you are not “delulu” for liking someone you are not “super psycho” for just being protective
making real life-altering reality-breaking mental illnesses into quirky funny personality things is insensitive  to the people who actually experience them
you are not an ally to mental ill people if you make our problems your funny cute personality traits 
I think a lot of people get confused with semi- verbalism. They think it’s something like selective mutism, or situational mutism as some call it. For me, that is apart of it but isn’t all of it.
For me being semi verbal means its a constant state. I’m always struggling with verbal communication. I’m always stuttering over my words, saying things I don’t mean, or unreliable speech. Sometime, yes, it does mean that I can’t talk in certain situations. However, this isn’t the extent of my communication. I need several days in advance to talk with friends. With family my communication is eh, but it can be unreliable, and I often get in trouble for saying things I don’t mean.
I use an AAC device now, but I still struggle because sometimes even typing doesn’t make my brain work. Sometimes the words get stuck and I have to pause and be like “what was I saying?” Or try and find the word I meant or a similar one. It can be frustrating, and does cause a lot of meltdowns.
Recently, regression has hit me hard. In the past, speech was ok but still a bit unreliable. Now, it’s pretty unreliable, and although I can have conversations my words are slurred, too fast, some words skipped, stuttering, just overall a hard time. Semi-verbalism isn’t just losing my speech sometimes. It’s losing my speech all the time. Wether that be a word, a stutter, or something more. It’s a constant struggle, constant tension, constant frustration.
I want people to realize that it’s ok to use terms that fit you, but use the terms that actually fit you. Don’t steal the terms of semi-speaking and non-speaking people.
happy disability pride month to people who thought that their very fucked up symptoms were completely normal. we’re talking people who were convinced that passing out daily was normal. people who thought everyone got migraines constantly. people who were told that bruising easily and bleeding all the time are things kids grow out of. you count as disabled, and you deserve to have your symptoms taken seriously
There comes a point where I have normalized the seizures, the motor disability, the daily falls, the poor balance, the chronic pain so much that the people around me call me a hypochondriac for stating for the first time in my life that I need urgent medical attention ( Well, lately this has intensified), and shit that shouldn't be. I always ignored him for wanting to keep a low profile, until the amount of seizures was unbearable. I am very fond of the disability community because for the first time I don't feel inept, or a burden, just another disabled person.
From A Common Journey: The recovery of the self in psychosis through therapeutic interaction by Lisa Korbek
