They're very rare. And honestly if you give them more than one chance to do something like that to you it becomes less their fault for being idiots than yours for putting up to it.
Yes, I agree heartily. To be fair, I spent most of my childhood with autistic-spectrum people, so I didn't realize I should be anything more than mildly indignant at the time.
Seriously, who runs off to play on the computer when their guest is doing chores?
Rosewood, and a couple of my male cousins. I am never going to pretend to be a dutiful woman again.
My mind is wandering so much I can't speak. And I have no one online I can talk to by typing. I'm a damn prisoner in my own head and I don't have so much as a spoon to dig myself out.
This used to happen to me a lot. It helps if you can try to keep calm and take deep breaths, but don't even try to think. Just let your mind wander around to whatever makes sense to you (not necessarily logical sense--this is key). Then see what you can understand of it, turning your meanderings into a picture or whatever you can piece together. Next, translate that picture into something other people can understand.
I warn you that this often takes two or three hours and can be extremely exhausting, but it usually works. I've actually devised a string of mental tests/calmers to pull me out of the worst situations (i.e. when I can't remember how to produce coherent language or communicate in any form, text or otherwise). For example, I start with word-association games, and slowly turn on a background system to figure out the connection between the words. When I'm done with that, I count for a while, before choosing a number sequence. After that, I sing, so as to work on memory/pattern-recognition. Then I work on getting any sort of coherent idea together, though I don't worry about comprehensibility or even the language/grammar--I tend to get a mashup of English, French, Latin, Japanese, and Arabic. After that, I recite theorems. Then I recite pages from novels or poetry, again running background systems to work on comprehension. Once that's done, I can usually at least confer ideas like "I don't want tea," even if I can't get facial expressions or body language to come back up for another couple of hours.
Of course, that's for a full mental shutdown... I don't know how many people go through those.
If you're just stuttering, then pretend you're standing in a cathedral or other sort of echoing hall. Say the words in your mind, and hear them echo back to you. Then say them aloud. This tends to be easier if you spend non-stuttering moments practicing enunciation, as well.
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