Oh wow that's a super interesting point and again, a small thing that I can imagine goes a really long way. I'm also glad that this helps me segway more into the other side of this conversation I was hoping to go into: disabilities.

So far we've stayed on point with mutism but I was hoping to get a more expensive conversation going about disabilities and similar situations in general. 

I'm interested in writing some short stories just trying to play around with this though. Not saying "their ears perked up" or "listening" or "hearing" for someone who might be deaf. Similarly it goes the same for someone blind.