communication

[galewings]

jolik: how do you tend to communicate with each other? maybe you leave notes around your room, maybe you beam emotions to each other, maybe you message each other over a chat program, maybe you do something else...?

bonus optional related questions if you want more questions:
- have you ever tried other methods of communication? did they work for you?
- do different headmates use different methods of communication? has this ever caused any issues or problems?
- have your main method(s) of communication ever stopped working (either temporarily or permanently)? how did you communicate in the meantime?

Comments

[foggerss]

???: I mean usually we communicate internally, usually verbally. Of a headmate is ever having difficulty speaking usally they'd just communicate through showing us images mentally or through almost mimicking another alters voice.

Or we communicate through writing for more important conversations and when we aren't in a public space where doing so isn't the best idea.

We tried an aac app, but it ended up not being needed for us. But we will be willing to do the same again if like, say a headmate needed it and it couldn't do the other methods above.

If we were to go through a period where internal communication is hard we'd likely switch to external ones or more vibe based ways of communication

[gze]

We communicate primarily internally, usually by speaking at each other. But we've been trying more raw emotion and 'vibes'-based communication too. Some of us are better/more natural at it than others. Like G likes to make sure their emotions are clearly expressed as a thought and will take time to break it down, E might get annoyed with that and just project a feeling to get something across quicker, it kinda depends on what the situation is and what we're trying to say to each other really. Might be that we're in a position where we can only communicate with emotion if the brain is occupied by other things (talking, maybe working or reading something), or if a headmate is far away.

We don't have a need for leaving notes around since we're fairly co-conscious. But we have typed things down before on our notes app as future reminders to ourselves, and we've also communicated via a chat program called MultiChat when we need our whole conversation on the record.

-Silvermoon Team

[glitterpigeon]

We can usually speak to each other. we experience this as hearing voices out loud. they float somewhere right outside the ear, like someone whispering to us. we also have internal communication using images and colours and other non-verbal ways of communicating things. this one is sometimes easier for complex topics but it can be harder to access we need to be sort of mind-meld-y to do it.

when communication is hard or needs to be externally visualized we will have short convos on Utter.

sometimes everything goes silent, when we are feeling particularly unwell. the worse we are doing mentally the more like a singlet we feel and operate, the better we are doing, the more plural we are.

We can also share memories with each other, but that can be quite a difficult thing to do. we have this sort of process of sitting down and working through our memories so that we can remember everything that happened the past few days/weeks/hours. it is a regular process and part of the rhythm of our daily life but it can be hard and not always successful.

also! our other wigglier way of communicating is through fashion. sometimes we can't tell who is around or what they want/need but we can deduce things about that based on what clothes we are getting dressed in. it is sort of a language in itself if you learn to listen to it.

-Phoebe/T'Pring