I am Autistic

I suffer from selective mutism - or involuntary mutism, or situationational mutism, as it's also called, because "selective" makes people think I choose to not speak, and that's not it at all. I am physically incapable of speaking in specific situations.

My husband and I have been discussing about the option of sign language.

So, here's some words and sentences I think would be helpful for me in those situations :-)

puhua








nyt

auttaa apu












Tarvita

 saanko?

 paperi

kynä

 

Sign language - teckenspråk - viittomakieli

American Sign Language alphabet

Swedish Sign Language alphabet

Finnish Sign Language alphabet

French sign language alphabet

Isn't it interesting that they don't have even an agreed alphabet in all the countries?

This alone is enough to tell one that if you know a sign language, you know one sign language,

and need to update your signs for all the other languages.

Such a pity they didn't think about that before they started creating these different languages.

From Wikipedia:

Sign languages are typically transcribed word-for-word by means of a gloss written in the predominant oral language in all capitals; for example, American Sign Language and Auslan would be written in English. Prosody is often glossed as superscript words, with its scope indicated by brackets.

    [I LIKE]NEGATIVE [WHAT?]RHETORICAL, GARLIC.
    "I don't like garlic."

Pure fingerspelling is usually indicated by hyphenation. Fingerspelled words that have been lexicalized (that is, fingerspelling sequences that have entered the sign language as linguistic units and that often have slight modifications) are indicated with a hash. For example, W-I-K-I indicates a simple fingerspelled word, but #JOB indicates a lexicalized unit, produced like J-O-B, but faster, with a barely perceptible O and turning the "B" hand palm side in, unlike a regularly fingerspelled "B".