Sensory Deprivation Day Analysis

The sensory deprivation day was an interesting insight into the day in the life of someone who cannot speak. At first, I thought the day might have some awkward occurrences at the worst, but in reality it was more difficult than anticipated. Before this, I did not understand how much I talked. When you are a talkative and expressive person, such as myself, it made the day that much harder for me. The day began easy enough, there was a minor moment of awkwardness as my roommate believed I was in distress because I did not speak to her for the majority of the morning since I had forgotten to tell her before. Eventually, I had realization that I could write out the majority of my messages. However, before then, most forms of communication were through frantic hand waving and frustrated jumping. It was like every interaction with someone was a game of charades. In one instance, in a class where I am very vocal, my teacher actually pulled me aside to ask me if I was doing alright because I did not say a word. I had assured her that I was doing an assignment for my class, mostly through writing it
I had to work a three hour shift and some people would just go along with it, not really questioning as to why I was not talking to them directly, but instead scrawling frantically on my notebook. Working at the front desk when people would ask which office to go to or have to give a long winded explanation about how the registrar works. With longer explanations, I would try and write it out. Nonetheless, that took absolutely forever in order to actually articulate a correct response. One instance is when one young person who needed assistance in a technical matter which needed a long explanation, he actually just left halfway through my explanation. My coworker found my wordless exchanges with people hilarious, refusing to help me so that I could get the full “experience” of the