I am really loving having laryngitis. I get it pretty often, always accompanying a bad cold or a flu. I used to also get it spontaneously around my birthday, I think in some way to avoid talking to family.
Here’s why I love it, and what I’ve discovered and embraced and learned this time around.
I though everyone knew common sign language alphabet. Not so!
When you mime, the concept of past and future tense disappears. The actions are interpreted as in the now. Does sign language handle this?
Communication is a lot harder when you have to communicate with alternatives like whistling, scribbling notes or miming so there is a quick evaluation about what to say and how. And suddenly a whole lot of spoken responses just drop away.
I feel freer and happier because I don’t have a head full of dialogue constantly running and then feeling like I must feed back into every comment. For example, Al likes to natter away and normally I feel constantly like I have to respond which I find exhausting and distracting. Not so! A simple whistle or a wink and he’s just pottering along like normal!
I often feel unheard which causes me great frustration. So when verbal communication is no longer in use it changes the dynamic completely as the listener’s attention needs to be more focussed AND I’m using less words.
And when you don’t talk, they come to you!
I feel more at peace because you hear more when you don’t speak so much. There is space in the conversation. I’m just hearing and seeing so many conversations in the world (mainly on tv) that overlap and try to outdo each other. I am SO guilty of doing this, and it’s just awful!