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PlasticDino

Updated 10mo ago

Communicating with nonverbal alters

We have a 4-year old alter named Mary. She is nonverbal and makes us have difficulty speaking whenever she’s fronting/co-fronting. Any advice for when we still need to communicate with people but can’t do it verbally?

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lolthepugsly

2y

We have a non-verbal too! Mom taught her sign language but that doesn't work for everybody
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JackOTrades

2y

One of our alters is also completely non-verbal! He is an adult but what helps us sometimes is using pre-made “cards” with basic answers like ‘Yes’ ‘No’ ‘I can’t speak’ ‘it’s too hot’ ‘it’s too cold’ ‘I need food/water’ and anything else you might find useful! I think you can even find some pre-made ones online and use pictures if possible!
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Syd.The.Space.Sloth

2y

we use discord a lot, and in the case we go nonverbal we use nonverval emotes and emoji's to communicate! there's entire boards of nonverbal emotes on pinterest and google, and we also use a random drawing app to simply pre-write simple phrases we may need to use when nonverbal

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