NONSCRIBAL SITUATION?
First up, what is being nonscribal? Nonscribal is a term that people often mix up with nonverbal. Nonscribal is the term for where you cannot talk over text, so you go nonverbal but text-wise. It's common that you may go nonverbal and nonscribal at the same time. There's various other terms too like semiscribal, scribalflux, altscribal, etc.
So what can you do when we go nonscribal?
1. Be patient. We try and communicate through emojis, or sometimes even force ourselves to speak which is highly uncomfortable and makes us worse. If you're patient and understanding, we may feel comfortable enough to just use emojis and small phrases rather than making ourselves worse.
2. Ask us our needs. We don't have a lot of needs usually, but that may change depending on the situation. We commonly need help breathing, as a nonscribal episode turns into a whole situation for us.
3. Try and distract us. Distractions are one of the most useful things for us, they're extremely helpful. They don't always work, but 7/10 of the time they do.
4. We may not be able to respond. We currently go FULLY unresponsive depending on what causes us to go nonscribal. This usually happens when it's caused by trauma. In these states we cannot move, even our eyes, we cannot hear sometimes either.
5. Get someone that we know very well, someone who understands our episodes, not just nonscribal episodes. Preferably someone who's very educated on our trauma. If you're in my server, you can very easily ask around and see who knows me. It's pretty obvious which groups of people know me best :))
6. Do not tell us to get an adult. We are not in a healthy situation currently and the only adults we know would shut us down. We are very vulnerable in that state, and would most likely do everything you tell us to. Which if you tell us to get an adult, it'll just make everything 10x worse.