Aphasia Support Group
Aphasia is a loss or impairment of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language, due to brain damage. It is usually a result of damage to the language centres of the brain (like Broca's area). Damage to these language areas can be caused by a stroke, traumatic brain injury or other head injury. Aphasia may also develop slowly, as in the case of a brain tumor.
So I am trying to get a new apartment before the middle of September....but that is the only thing I've got on my plate. I'm in a relationship that is going great, he is my fianc but just trying to set a date and all of the things that go with the engagement.
I also had a traumatic brain injury when I was 4 years old. I was in a coma for 3 1/2 weeks and I had a shunt put in. But now I need help.
I'm having so much aphasia right now. When I need all of my words to be in order and making sense, the words aren't because it seems like every sentence I say I'm having aphasia. I just don't know how to make this go away. Or if there's a way to make this go away. My fianc makes fun of me because I do it so frequently and that just makes the aphasia worse. My fiance has gone even so far as to say that aphasia isn't real.
If anyone out there reads this and can understand it and knows a trick or something I would really appreciate it.
Loreali
I also had a traumatic brain injury when I was 4 years old. I was in a coma for 3 1/2 weeks and I had a shunt put in. But now I need help.
I'm having so much aphasia right now. When I need all of my words to be in order and making sense, the words aren't because it seems like every sentence I say I'm having aphasia. I just don't know how to make this go away. Or if there's a way to make this go away. My fianc makes fun of me because I do it so frequently and that just makes the aphasia worse. My fiance has gone even so far as to say that aphasia isn't real.
If anyone out there reads this and can understand it and knows a trick or something I would really appreciate it.
Loreali
I can certainly say that aphasia is very real, and I would advise that you seek speech therapy to assist with your challenging concern.
For your fiance, I would suggest some educational literature to help him to understand and be aware of such a sensitive speech and language disorder. This is no laughing matter.
It is embarassing, and like you, people think I'm faking it or something. I get that Broca's aphasia, like Word Salad type symptoms. My words come out backwards too.
I practice speech therapy on my own, by reading poetry and such.