Echolinkia

My communication is in blog posts and webcomics. It's in references and words of other. But its not in some sort of recognized quotes.

My communication is instead having people tell me that I have a link for everything.

Because that's how it works. I don't know how to say these ideas myself. They're important and they are such huge things I need to share. And I can't put it into words. Words are too hard.

Make me think of it. Got a link for that.

Because my communication is in those links and references. It's in the words they say and who is saying it and how they say it and what is linked when. It's in the direct reference to the immediate things but the indirect as well.

It's in all of what is being said there.

And then once again I'm told I have a link for everything and how much they learn from what I share.

It's not about the ideas of others. Because its more than that. It's not saying "oh this is important" because its saying, I see you talking about ABA trauma so I'm referencing someone who you can read the ABA trauma in their words even when they don't mention it directly. It's there and its relevant and so is so much more.

There might be three or four or five different posts to get across the direct point I want to make but which one I pick in this moment is important.

There's not just one post for everything you see. Because its communicating in so much more complex of references for that. The multilayered refrences. The when do I pick a blog post and when do I pick xkcd and when do I pick something more formally written (lol that's rare because even when the ideas are what i want to say, its not the feel).

Because it's the feels and saying so much more than what just saying the same basic idea that is wanted to be said. It's the importance of how we commnicate as ourselves. It's saying things the way we say things.

It's the echolinkia that alyssa started to call this when I say that this is how I communicate.

It's having folders of posts saved so I can grab a link to reference in any moment, and still having the phrases to search to pull up piles of others, because those phrases mean things and those posts are important and it is so much more to say in posts than in phrases I hope people understand the reference of or trying to write out why it matters.

It's writing blog posts so I can link them myself later in this exact same manner, because even linking to myself feels different than writing those same words and that being why I'm writing this now.

Some of my AAC is hyperlinks and I so very wish I had one that said what I was trying to say right now instead of bits and pieces that felt incomplete and messy and like it would just confuse people more because having to write this out feels like I'm missing so very much of what communication is. Which is in many ways the point. Communication is complicated even when its sending links around. It's still how I communicate.