This is a form of “going nonverbal” and is really common, bestie. You’re valid and understood. I don’t know the details, but something about our brain chemicals overwhelming certain centers of the brain and shutting them down, or something like that. But it’s real.

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What #1 said exactly, I’ve found that it’s easier for me to deal with being nonverbal because all of my friends are on the spectrum and we all have overwhelmed days where if we aren’t talking then everyone else just either talks around them (if they are too overwhelmed to be involved at all) or waits for them to type/write out notes to give their piece

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