This Disabled Pride Month, shout-out to those who have trouble talking, no matter what that looks like for you. The semi-verbal and semi-speaking. The non-verbal and non-speaking. Those with stutters. Those who get word salad. Those have trouble processing language. Those who have a very limited vocabulary. Those who lose speech. The selectively mute. Those who have been mocked for their voice or difficulty speaking. Those who can’t stand the sound of their own voice and get too distressed by it to speak. Those whose throats have been damaged. Those who find their dissociation makes it harder to speak. Those whose echolalia or tics or whatever else interrupts their speech. Those who struggle to understand or piece together sentences. Anyone else who experiences any sort of difficulty or inability with speech for whatever reason. And if any of this sounds like nonsensical spit-balling. Guess who’s having a time of it today and just hoping to hell this post is coherent lol. I hope we all have a great day in which we’re not pressured to go past our limits or pretend to be normal and don’t get mocked or sneered at or anything. I hope we can all just be.