youneedacat:

I’ve tried writing this so many ways and fucked up so many times trying to say what I mean, and not say what I don’t mean.

I don’t come to tumblr to improve my writing.

Despite the fluency of my writing, I have a serious, lifelong communication impairment. All kinds of complex and difficult…

First of all: what the fuck kind of person tries to “improve” someone’s writing on tumblr? It’s tumblr. Wow.

Second of all: “It’s not just having to turn thoughts into words. It’s having to hold back all the wrong (but often utterly coherent and plausible) words that want to come out in their place. One slip and there’s a paragraph or more of nonsense — that’s often tricksy enough to look like sense. One person with similar difficulties described it as the difference between slowly learning to ride a horse (ordinary speech delay) and trying to get a bucking bronco to go where you want (the particular kind of messy receptive and expressive language development I had). It’s trying to simultaneously come up with the right words and suppress the wrong ones — often compromising by weaving them together. It’s really hard. Especially for someone who can’t multitask well.”

Is the best description of my word struggles that I have ever heard, and while I am sorry for the circumstances that resulted in you writing it, I am grateful that you did.

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