hello! I don’t know if anyone has already made a post about this before, but I just stumbled upon this app made specifically for when you’ve gone into a nonverbal anxiety attack!!!
it was made by Jeroen De Busser who is an autistic computer science student.
the app is really easy to use! all you do is open it and hand your phone to someone you need to communicate with during an attack but physically cannot, and it shows this cool little alert for the person to read, and then it takes them to an easy to use chat (that looks a lot like texting! except both of you are communicating using the same device).
the alert message is completely customizable and you can have it say whatever you need!
the app is called Emergency Chat and it’s available in the Apple Store and google play store.
I highly recommend it to anyone who might need it :)
OH MY GOD?!?!?? BOOST
That’s so bootiful!
thank you so much for this because i never know what to do when i cant talk to people and they just start trying to ask me questions and its really hard to force myself to say i cant talk and stuff. im definately getting this right now
For real, this looks incredibly useful, not only boosting but might look into it. Let me tell you right now (while I have ~words at my command~) that going nonverbal, due to a meltdown/anxiety attack/PTSD flashback, or any combination of the above (hA, FUN) sucks major hardcore butt, it is incredibly unpleasant, and however ‘weird’/uncomfortable it is to watch, or ‘inconvenient'… lemme just assure you, it’s about nine million times more inconvenient/unpleasant to be going through it. And no, I really can’t explain this as it’s happening, so something like this (especially, just from that screencap, you can actually customize to express things like the increased sensitivity to sense stimuli - I can’t deal with noise during an attack? Like, at all?) looks amazing and could save me (and a ton of others) just a metric crapton of pain. N I C E.