Comments on: I’m Dying to Speak to You https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/ Multilingualism, Intercultural communication, Consumerism, Globalization, Gender & Identity, Migration & Social Justice, Language & Tourism Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:22:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: November 2024: Language as a Matter of Life and Death – Language, Culture and Justice Hub https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-116547 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:22:51 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-116547 […] language and death might be relevant to my own life as an autistic person. In a blog post for Language on the Move, I related how autistic people have much lower life expectancy than allistic (non-autistic) people. […]

]]> By: Language on the Move 2024 – Language on the Move https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-110961 Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:59:39 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-110961 […] Gerald Roche, I’m Dying to Speak to You […]

]]> By: Åsa Virdi Kroik https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-107221 Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:58:19 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-107221 A well written and conceivable essey with an awesome title! I am ashamed (again) that researchers in religion has not come up with something valueble in this field. Sorry about that (and a lot of other things researchers in religion are responsible of).

]]> By: Gerald Roche https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-106858 Mon, 06 May 2024 23:00:51 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-106858 In reply to Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi.

That’s wonderful, I am so happy that you are working on this! Best of luck with your project.

]]> By: Ingrid Piller https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-106856 Mon, 06 May 2024 22:16:34 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-106856 In reply to Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi.

Thanks for your comment! Good to hear from you! Would love to hear more about your new project 🙂

]]> By: Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-106850 Mon, 06 May 2024 03:47:22 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-106850 ]]> Oh wow. How interesting!
I was so excited to see this post as I have recently started a project here in the Netherlands looking into autism from a sociolinguistic perspective, exactly addressing these questions
Thanks a a lot for sharing 🙏

]]> By: Gegentuul https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-106839 Sat, 04 May 2024 09:47:49 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-106839 Thanks Gerald! I always learn a lot from your writings!

]]> By: Ingrid Piller https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-106632 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:05:28 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-106632 In reply to Gerald Roche.

Good points, Alex and Gerald! The current review of the National Competitive Grants Program might be a good opportunity to raise these points, both through individual submissions at https://www.arc.gov.au/engage-us/consultations/policy-review-national-competitive-grants-program and through the institutional channels you are affiliated with.

Btw, Gerald, I trust you are aware that Germans are convinced that Bielefeld doesn’t exist … 😉

]]> By: Gerald Roche https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-106631 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 04:41:05 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-106631 In reply to Alexandra.

Hi Alex. Yes, I agree that the way that funding is siloed definitely works as a barrier to research in this area. I wonder if there are any positive examples where large-scale funding encourages the sort of interdisciplinary research that would help explore the autism-health-language links? I was lucky enough to visit Bielefeld University last year, which has an excellent centre for interdisciplinary research that I think would support this sort of work, but I think we also need something much broader that could support multi-year projects in this area, and I struggle to think of anything Australia that would support such work.

]]> By: Alexandra https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-106519 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 02:16:22 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-106519 Thanks, Gerald, I learnt so much from this blog and I’m grateful that you provide the personal context of your own autism. I agree the language disciplines could make a contribution. Something I think is perhaps a barrier to think of ways to overcome is the strict funding wall for either medical OR non-medical research, at least in Australia. This seems to me to stymie attempts to look at language and health inequalities/damaging healthcare practices, although some researchers do manage to find a funded and publishable space for such work! As an analogy, it seems to me that a lot of public health literacy research is well-intentioned and undertaken rigorously but has a blind spot for actual expertise about language.

]]> By: Gerald Roche https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-106509 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 04:44:16 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-106509 In reply to Brynn.

Thanks Brynn! I hope you’re all working your way through post-diagnosis life OK. It’s quite a ride!

]]> By: Brynn https://languageonthemove.com/im-dying-to-speak-to-you/#comment-106481 Tue, 16 Apr 2024 22:49:54 +0000 https://www.languageonthemove.com/?p=25364#comment-106481 Thank you SO much for this, Gerald!!! I have an autistic son, and my daughter and I were confirmed as autistic last year as well (though we keep getting the comment, “But you don’t SEEM autistic”, which is a whole other article in and of itself). I always love reading your work, so thank you for writing on this extremely important topic.

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