Sudden plurality noodle.

[kiya]

I've been manifesting a great deal as discrete aspects rather than gestalt lately. ("Lately" defined approximately as "the last month and a half".)

In roughly the same time period, I have been having significant difficulties producing language: not only have I been losing words more frequently (and a wider variety of parts of speech), but my paragraphs have been significantly more reluctant to allow me to wrestle them into submission than is usual.

Hypothesis: consistent, coherent language production may be a byproduct of synthesis. Situations that keep me out of gestalt for a significant length of time disrupt the channels that enable me to form comprehensible verbalisation.

On the bright side, I'm still much better at generating text than I am at generating spoken language, though that text is punctuated with "thingy" with somewhat distressing frequency. And I can count on Darkhawk for verbiage, so long as it's on a meta-topic and I don't mind polysyllabic ravings.

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[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

consistent, coherent language production may be a byproduct of synthesis.

When my plurality first started to manifest itself, I started having language and typing problems too. They subsided over time, and I would say my language production is now back to my previous norm, regardless of whether I'm acting as a gestalt or as one member of the collective.

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

We have a little of the same sort of thing -- choosing what to say. We don't have the "constant voices" problem either, never did -- like zaphkiel said we thought we were faking the whole thing for that reason. Mostly what we hear sounds more like radio stations.

One other thing that occurs to me is what about other languages? A lot of groups have a personal language among themselves, and frontrunners may not be familiar with it.

[ginabeena.livejournal.com]

Hello I am sorry for intruding. But I can sort of sympathize with your language problems. Here I will explain, what sort of problems we have with language and what we do about them. Maybe if you have anything similar it will giv eyou ideas!

Ok the biggest thing we have is a guy named Jason. A very calm and composed person who we would force to do front work if it weren't for one problem. When he's around our entire throat locks up, he can't speak unless he makes a humongous physical strain, and even then he only manages to choke three or four words out before he has to stop. We have no idea why this happens, but it stands in the way of course when Jason's out and about and someone taps us on the shoulder and says "Excuse me?" Well anyway here's what we do about it.

Around people who know about Jason's inability to speak, he gets around with scribbling notes on paper, facial expressions, and small hand gestures. Facial expressions and body language can be really expresive and you'd be surprised how much you can get out of them. We keep saying we're going to learn sign language but we haven't found any classes yet. Around the world in general, if Jason is out and we're in a position where we MUST speak, he'll usually track down one of us and shove us up there to talk to them, but it takes a moment for our throat to untwist when he leaves. Sometimes we do a buddy-system sort of thing, for instance Jason and Freddy will hang out together, and if someone asks Jason a question Freddy will jump up as Jason ducks down, and answer for him.

So that's my advice, give people who are nonverbal or have trouble vocalizing alternate ways to express themselves, tell other people if you can about their difficulties so that they know what to expect, and buddy up to minimize difficulties. Hope this helps!