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support nonverbal autistic people 💞

support hyperverbal autistic people 💞

support autistic people who can talk “"normally”“ 💞

support autistic people who can technically speak but have a lot of trouble with wording 💞

support selectively nonverbal autistic people 💞

support autistic people who are nonverbal sometimes 💞

support autistic people 💞💞

Support hyperverbal nonverbal autistic people.

Support “verbal” autistic people who have way more trouble with language than many “nonverbal” autistic people (who may excel at language but just be unable to use speech).

Support complex understandings of autistic and other neurodivergent people’s connections to language.  Avoid oversimplifying.  Avoid assuming that if something’s counterintuitive or you’ve never seen it before or don’t understand, then it can’t be real.