Losing A Mind 3: The Upside?
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The Upside?
At first I thought it would be a problem that my speech is incredibly slow and that I sometimes have to simply stop for a moment mid sentence to pull it together. Then I had to explain to my first doctor in Taipei that I wasn’t normal, that something was broken, that normally I talk much, much faster. It suddenly occurs to me that this debilitating situation has reduced me to… normal speed. When I speak Chinese, I now speak slowly and clearly, which makes sense because I’m still learning the language. When I speak English it’s not anyone’s native language and so they assume, while in my head I’m raging behind my slow moving tongue, that I’m being oh so kind by choice. It dawned on me today that I’ve been unwittingly turned into an adorable, kindly old Japanese man.
I’ve also realized that I’m going to still be in Taipei for Halloween, and for that I’ll make the perfect Zombie!