It feels great when we have an understanding of how we tick, doesn't it. I was actually happy when I found out I had Asperger's, because it explained so much.
I had aphasia when I had my small stroke last May. It was so frustrating, because I presented to the ER in tears and they kept asking me questions ( after I could actually understand what they were saying ) and I apparently wasn't answering with the appropriate words. Even now, if I am tired or otherwise stressed, the "right" word won't come to me. Considering the post concussion syndrome I had thirteen years ago from a car accident ( I had to learn to read and write again...which explains why my punctuation is so bad...I'll never learn that again, it was to hard the first time ) and the stroke and the MS, I'm doing very well.
Are you SURE we aren't related?? So many things that we share! I'm sorry that you had a stroke. That must have been so very scary. And you do understand my aphasia or paraphasia. Frustrating.
You are right, it does help to know how we tick. What led you to find out about Asperger's?
Neologisms are frequently seen after strokes as well as in degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. They come up with some truly bizarre words!
Literal paraphasias are particularly interesting to me - they're better known as spoonerisms. What's neat about spoonerisms is they're very regular in how they're created. Research has been done to study the structure of spoonerisms collected form both "normal speakers" and those affected by stroke. What they found was regular transversal of like parts (e.g. letter for a letter, syllable for a syllable) at the same point in each word. For example, you might hear "a spilver soon" instead of "a silver spoon," but you won't hear "a nilver sousp." You also more often than not hear sound substitutions wherein both sounds share a trait, which is to say voicing (e.g. the difference between /t/ and /d/), place (e.g. where in the mouth it's produced, /b, m, p/ are all labial sounds), or manner (e.g. stops /b, p, m, t, k, g, d), fricatives /s, f, sh, zh, h/, nasals /m, n, ng/, etc.).
it is all fascinating to me! I could easily say "spilver soon" and would, given half a chance! So glad you are teachign me about this. So what do you think it means, about my speech patterns? You said that fibro is neurological. Then shouldn't I see a neurologist instead of a rheumatologist? Just wonderin'
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I had aphasia when I had my small stroke last May. It was so frustrating, because I presented to the ER in tears and they kept asking me questions ( after I could actually understand what they were saying ) and I apparently wasn't answering with the appropriate words. Even now, if I am tired or otherwise stressed, the "right" word won't come to me. Considering the post concussion syndrome I had thirteen years ago from a car accident ( I had to learn to read and write again...which explains why my punctuation is so bad...I'll never learn that again, it was to hard the first time ) and the stroke and the MS, I'm doing very well.
How's your foot doing, btw?
Yup, we really are designed in amazing ways.
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You are right, it does help to know how we tick. What led you to find out about Asperger's?
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Literal paraphasias are particularly interesting to me - they're better known as spoonerisms. What's neat about spoonerisms is they're very regular in how they're created. Research has been done to study the structure of spoonerisms collected form both "normal speakers" and those affected by stroke. What they found was regular transversal of like parts (e.g. letter for a letter, syllable for a syllable) at the same point in each word. For example, you might hear "a spilver soon" instead of "a silver spoon," but you won't hear "a nilver sousp." You also more often than not hear sound substitutions wherein both sounds share a trait, which is to say voicing (e.g. the difference between /t/ and /d/), place (e.g. where in the mouth it's produced, /b, m, p/ are all labial sounds), or manner (e.g. stops /b, p, m, t, k, g, d), fricatives /s, f, sh, zh, h/, nasals /m, n, ng/, etc.).
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So glad you are teachign me about this. So what do you think it means, about my speech patterns? You said that fibro is neurological. Then shouldn't I see a neurologist instead of a rheumatologist? Just wonderin'
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