Looks like eeby deeby to me

Moving house tomorrow

Be careful, I’ve heard they’re heavy

Not mine, mine is a

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My cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian books.

p.s. my latest book cartoons collection is Revenge of the Librarians: tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

I feel seen. And mocked. And understood.

When my kiddo finally decided (at age 20) that it was time for (most of) his enormous Lego collection to go, it was a gut-wrenching moment for me (goodbye childhood!). However, we used this service, which was simple and hassle-free.

This is wonderful to know.

My boys. Er. Two grown men not my boys at all.

The spiderverse crew knew what they were doing

Inspo:

nobody showed up to my public execution :/ what the fuck you guys :/

fine. whatever. well they're beheading me with a sword and you're all going to miss it.

contenders for funniest replies in the notes

apparently we r doing this again

Selective Mutism: an anxiety disorder. The inability to talk is caused by social anxiety due to the people and/or situation around the selectively mute individual. Often starts in childhood.

Speech Loss: a term for being unable to speak for a certain period of time, usually due to autism-related reasons (e.g. being overwhelmed or burnt out). Can overlap with Selective Mutism, the disorder, but it is not the same thing. (For one, SL is a trait; SM is a whole disorder.)

Nonverbal/Nonspeaking: a term for people who are always or almost always unable to talk. If you're unable to talk for an hour/day/week, you're not "going nonverbal"; you're "losing speech". If you've never been able to talk more than a few utterances, that's nonverbal.

Semiverbal/Semispeaking: a term for people who struggle greatly to speak to communicate. This might include taking awhile to form sentences, speaking with very few words, relying on echolalia, using gestures to communicate, and not always making sense to others.

Hyperverbal: people who speak more than what's typical, though we can still experience speech loss. This can include things like having a large vocabulary, using more words than necessary/usual to say something, talking to ourselves, talking for the sake of talking, using a lot of non-communicative echolalia, not realizing we're talking, or rambling often.

A Note: over time, your place on the verbalizing spectrum (nonverbal, semiverbal, average, hyperverbal) CAN change, but that's not, like, "oh i was hyperverbal this week and nonverbal last week"; it's about overarching patterns. Additionally, Selective Mutism does not inherently put someone at a certain spot on the verbalizing spectrum.

Reblogging this again because people who definitely aren't nonverbal/nonspeaking are littering our tags again and I'm so pissed off right now I hate hate HATE that people not only speak over us in real life but ON FUCKING TUMBLR WHERE WE ACTUALLY CAN COMMUNICATE OUR THOUGHTS!!!

AND THOSE POSTS ARE BEING REBLOGGED BY PEOPLE WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER BECAUSE THEY'VE READ OUR COMPLAINTS AT LEAST TWICE IN THE PAST!

thinkin about a baby of my acquaintance & how when her parents are hanging out & chatting, she'll almost fully participate in the conversation--politely watching who's talking, saying something approx the same length & tone of what her parents are saying, occasionally using a questioning cadence & looking at someone specific for an answer, laughing when they laugh--doing everything except actually using any recognizable language

this baby also once tipped me a granola bar at work. she'd been watching everyone in line very closely & when it was her parent's turn, at exactly the right point in the transaction for a tip, she pickpocketed her mom's granola bar & shoved it in the tip har

Babies are like mockingbirds -- they mimic what they see. Children, in general, are mockingbirds. They give back what they are given. This is why it's absolute garbage to baby-talk to babies. Just... talk to them like people.

When you see a child being encouraging or when you see them being cruel, the words they say are the words someone said to them.

hell yeah man 🥂

MY NAME'S LINK AND THIS IS JACKASS

cds and vinyl and cassette tapes and dvds and tapes and books and zines are the most important things in this uncaring world amen

we have to be silly together it's an imperative i can't do this alone

Sleeping isnt enough for me. they need to invent sleeping 2