COLLOQUIZ

- Once on 3g of mushrooms I completely lost my desire to speak as mouth noises seemed an entirely inadequate and downright disrespectful way of attempting to convey what was already doing a fine job expressing itself simply by being.

- Cyclohexamines especially.
- Yes to all. I miss it all. Mutism is the easiest to stimulate, hardest to simulate badly.
- I don’t process language - but some has and more will and can become part of the texture of me.

- I stuttered a bit in my late teens for a few years before managing my social anxiety.
- I have always had this odd thing where I flip words in a collated term. E.g. "Par Carp" (instead of "car park"). It probably has a name. My son also has it.
- I was selectively mute throughout my childhood.

- None of the interesting ones, though I thought I was loosing my German when I was learning Spanish. It was a drunken and tearful night.
- Yes, often.
- I'm gonna write echolalia on the back of the next metal cupboard I find.

- I have had brief episodes of mutism in my younger days. I used to induce a kind of madness by reading rhyming dictionaries out loud.

- I experience shutdowns, so I am very familiar with mutism. I also have a stammer, which is usually easily masked but becomes prominent when stressed or tired.

- Freestyle rap.

- Sometimes the goblins took my words and carried them off and I scrabbled at the splintery bald base of the drawer and promised myself I’d learn vocabularies for what I couldn’t say (but dinnae have the language for that yet). 
Cannot not say a terrible pun (extra neologism: shit pun = shun; “pun you oughter shun”)

- I stammer on plosives, now only sometimes in English, almost always in Spanish.

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