As an Aspie adult, a highly verbal one at that, can I just say that when I am agitated or upset, being asked to verbalise what I'm feeling is often counter-productive. High emotion or frustration causes what is in essence a traffic jam between brain and mouth. I literally can't force the words out. And being asked to talk, being asked to verbalise, compounds my frustration no end, because I know if I could say what I'm feeling, it would make things easier, but that pathway is broken at that point in time. Repeated questioning is a sure-fire way to provoke a meltdown.
If it's just over-sensitivity or stress that are inducing it, often time and space without someone 'hovering' for a response is enough to get over it, and I can come back ten, fifteen minutes, half hour later and explain what the issue was.
If it's an emotional crisis that needs expression to relieve it, I can sometimes type if I can't talk. It's a different pathway in the brain, which is why people without functional speech due to autism or aphasia or apraxia or auditory processing disorder (or combination of these) can often communicate through typed speech, PECS or electronic communication devices but not spoken language.
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Date: 2011-05-28 07:05 am (UTC)If it's just over-sensitivity or stress that are inducing it, often time and space without someone 'hovering' for a response is enough to get over it, and I can come back ten, fifteen minutes, half hour later and explain what the issue was.
If it's an emotional crisis that needs expression to relieve it, I can sometimes type if I can't talk. It's a different pathway in the brain, which is why people without functional speech due to autism or aphasia or apraxia or auditory processing disorder (or combination of these) can often communicate through typed speech, PECS or electronic communication devices but not spoken language.