Oh, the fun of doing an hour-long presentation and going completely non-verbal for the first 30 minutes. Thank goodness for my colleague. Overlooked fact: Many verbal autistics still have periods (minutes to weeks to months) where they are non-verbal. I use AAC apps due to that.
I once went nonverbal and had to conduct a meeting via live chat with everyone in the room. It worked surprisingly well, especially for the quieter people in the room who were way smarter than the loudmouth social adepts.
