My sister recently had a concussion due to an auto accident, and she sounded a little slurred at times, and she kept forgetting the word she was looking for, and had to work around it, like, "Get me that red thing on the coffee table" instead of "get me that book" for example. She was also incredibly emotional and didn't really understand why. :/
Hey, I just had a mild concussion the other day! What frustrated me the most is that my brain and my mouth didn't seem to be going at the same speed. I felt really slow in everything that I did, and it extended out to how fast I talked (versus my usual conversational speed).
Sometimes there'd be more verbal filler, like "uh..." and such.
I agree with the comment that someone said about emotional state being variable without exactly knowing why--that can, of course, change your dialogue drastically, if your character is concussed and suddenly in tears but what they're saying isn't sad or they themselves don't actually FEEL sad.
Sometimes they sound like they're talking in their sleep, or like they're shifting in and out of reality and a dream. Sometimes they've got actual aphasia, and traces of that can linger for months. It all depends on where and how severe the trauma to the brain was.
I had a concussion, and it took about a week to get over. Mostly I felt like I was underwater, that my brain was sluggish and I couldn't gather my thoughts.
ETA: I struck my left temple. Later it was discovered there was some slight temporal lobe damage.
From what I recall of my concussion (I was knocked unconscious in a accident), the effect on my speech was something similar to the effect I get when I'm mentally exhausted; aphasia (unable to find the word I need), quickly losing my train of thought, and unable to follow through when I intended to do something. Added to this was my memory being effected, not in the sense of not knowing who I was or what I had been doing (riding home), but instead being unable to retain information that I was given (technically, post-traumatic anterograde amnesia). I had no idea why I was in a hospital, and didn't know how I'd gotten there. I had no real curiosity about them, either, which is VERY unlike me. I would say my general state was one of vagueness and unconcerned confusion
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Sometimes there'd be more verbal filler, like "uh..." and such.
I agree with the comment that someone said about emotional state being variable without exactly knowing why--that can, of course, change your dialogue drastically, if your character is concussed and suddenly in tears but what they're saying isn't sad or they themselves don't actually FEEL sad.
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ETA: I struck my left temple. Later it was discovered there was some slight temporal lobe damage.
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