April 22, 2022. Day Of Silence.

8:57 am

Good morning! 

Today is the national day of silence, where those taking part stay silent the entire day to raise awareness for all those who were silenced for being LGBTQ+, or just different. It is a very interesting experience to stay silent all day, and my friends are taking it really well and are being really respectful, which I greatly appreciate. It’s hard not to jump into conversations like I usually do, and I’m finding it hard to just sit back and listen. Even when people are talking to me, not a lot of my friends know sign language, so I really can't say much back. I write slowly so they get a little impatient, but that's not their fault at all. What I have noticed is it is much easier to sit and listen to conversations and ideas I wouldn’t have heard if I’d been talking. I spend a lot of time trying to make people smile and laugh, but today I’m just being quiet; I can tell it’s a weird experience for all the people who know me too (LOL). My partner knows ASL and has been helping me learn for a long time, (they have psychogenic mutism, so they learned it to communicate). They are really cool about this too! I’m interested to see how the rest of the day goes.