What is the thing that happened in your life that changed you forever or partly? It could be something small or huge change. Maybe you had a car accident and now cannot walk and use a wheelchair (not so good), or you found your 'soulmate' or won $100 million in the lotto (financial good).
Warning: I don't care so please don't start with "I'm condolence".
For me, I had a Stroke in December 2023 a couple prior my 40th birthday. Afterwards I ended up in an Aphasia, a language communication disorder, I've been working this every week since the stroke where I couldn't even put in a sentence, now I'm better but it's 7 months and I'll probably always. My grammatically and spelling of a 5th grader, I cannot comprehend what people are trying to say, and have short memory. Basically, my brain can not process too much at one time (I only understand of 3 words of 7 hearing a sentence and then my brain tries fill-in the rest). I cannot also comprehend to speech and read as well but I probably get the gist of things.
So there are things that I enjoyed that is changed my life. Movies, TV Series, Books, I can't even enjoy as I used to. I try it with CC on TV and figure out, I have to rewind again and again and again, same with read a page, and repeat. I didn't see Breaking Bad (besides the 2 first episodes) until I watched it all during the last couple months. It was a good show, but I couldn't understand what was actually going on. Another character would come back in, or a past reference, I have no clue like thinking "huh, what the **** is this from".
For me, I loved to message boards like CF or Reddit to keeps me bored in the office. Now, message boards are terrible to interactive. I'm not sure what people are trying to say, and I can't even figure out what else I even try to say in my brain! I got a lot of responses like "are you drunk? Are you dumb? wtf? Do you know English?", so I don't even care to try responses. Even when I want to do a little response, it takes a lot of time and brain process for the littlest things.
Example of the basic of responses. Say someone took a picture for food and thought it looked so tasty, so I wanted only do is response a gif:
So usually find the gif, send, go next, takes 5.2 seconds. I go find the gif and I know exactly what I want to do, but I don't even know how to search on Google Image. ok Homer, but what I try to say. I tried like 'homer water mouth', 'homer slip water", finally 'homer slip saliva (took me a long time to even find the word saliva). THEN I googled 'what is slip on saliva', and find the word I was trying to say. DROOL. It took 5 minutes to even figure what the word is 'drool'.
Anywho, I am a blessing from the Stroke as I needed to change in my life, and thankfully I ended with Aphasia than anything physical. I love going outdoor that I'd be very depressed if I couldn't do those things like hiking, scuba drive, travel, etc.
CLIFFNOTES: 39 years old got Stroke, now stupid for language communication.
So What else is the thing that happened in your life that changed you forever or partly?
Warning: I don't care so please don't start with "I'm condolence".
For me, I had a Stroke in December 2023 a couple prior my 40th birthday. Afterwards I ended up in an Aphasia, a language communication disorder, I've been working this every week since the stroke where I couldn't even put in a sentence, now I'm better but it's 7 months and I'll probably always. My grammatically and spelling of a 5th grader, I cannot comprehend what people are trying to say, and have short memory. Basically, my brain can not process too much at one time (I only understand of 3 words of 7 hearing a sentence and then my brain tries fill-in the rest). I cannot also comprehend to speech and read as well but I probably get the gist of things.
I've been different neuropsychologist and Speech-language pathologists so they'll say different types. So who knows.
Mixed non-fluent aphasia
This term is applied to patients who have sparse and effortful speech, resembling severe Broca's aphasia. However, unlike persons with Broca's aphasia, they remain limited in their comprehension of speech and do not read or write beyond an elementary level.
Wernicke's aphasia ('fluent aphasia')
In this form of aphasia the ability to grasp the meaning of spoken words is chiefly impaired, while the ease of producing connected speech is not much affected. Therefore Wernicke's aphasia is referred to as a 'fluent aphasia.' However, speech is far from normal. Sentences do not hang together and irrelevant words intrude-sometimes to the point of jargon, in severe cases. Reading and writing are often severely impaired.
Anomic aphasia
This term is applied to persons who are left with a persistent inability to supply the words for the very things they want to talk about-particularly the significant nouns and verbs. As a result their speech, while fluent in grammatical form and output is full of vague circumlocutions and expressions of frustration. They understand speech well, and in most cases, read adequately. Difficulty finding words is as evident in writing as in speech.
Mixed non-fluent aphasia
This term is applied to patients who have sparse and effortful speech, resembling severe Broca's aphasia. However, unlike persons with Broca's aphasia, they remain limited in their comprehension of speech and do not read or write beyond an elementary level.
Wernicke's aphasia ('fluent aphasia')
In this form of aphasia the ability to grasp the meaning of spoken words is chiefly impaired, while the ease of producing connected speech is not much affected. Therefore Wernicke's aphasia is referred to as a 'fluent aphasia.' However, speech is far from normal. Sentences do not hang together and irrelevant words intrude-sometimes to the point of jargon, in severe cases. Reading and writing are often severely impaired.
Anomic aphasia
This term is applied to persons who are left with a persistent inability to supply the words for the very things they want to talk about-particularly the significant nouns and verbs. As a result their speech, while fluent in grammatical form and output is full of vague circumlocutions and expressions of frustration. They understand speech well, and in most cases, read adequately. Difficulty finding words is as evident in writing as in speech.
So there are things that I enjoyed that is changed my life. Movies, TV Series, Books, I can't even enjoy as I used to. I try it with CC on TV and figure out, I have to rewind again and again and again, same with read a page, and repeat. I didn't see Breaking Bad (besides the 2 first episodes) until I watched it all during the last couple months. It was a good show, but I couldn't understand what was actually going on. Another character would come back in, or a past reference, I have no clue like thinking "huh, what the **** is this from".
For me, I loved to message boards like CF or Reddit to keeps me bored in the office. Now, message boards are terrible to interactive. I'm not sure what people are trying to say, and I can't even figure out what else I even try to say in my brain! I got a lot of responses like "are you drunk? Are you dumb? wtf? Do you know English?", so I don't even care to try responses. Even when I want to do a little response, it takes a lot of time and brain process for the littlest things.
Example of the basic of responses. Say someone took a picture for food and thought it looked so tasty, so I wanted only do is response a gif:
So usually find the gif, send, go next, takes 5.2 seconds. I go find the gif and I know exactly what I want to do, but I don't even know how to search on Google Image. ok Homer, but what I try to say. I tried like 'homer water mouth', 'homer slip water", finally 'homer slip saliva (took me a long time to even find the word saliva). THEN I googled 'what is slip on saliva', and find the word I was trying to say. DROOL. It took 5 minutes to even figure what the word is 'drool'.
Anywho, I am a blessing from the Stroke as I needed to change in my life, and thankfully I ended with Aphasia than anything physical. I love going outdoor that I'd be very depressed if I couldn't do those things like hiking, scuba drive, travel, etc.
CLIFFNOTES: 39 years old got Stroke, now stupid for language communication.
So What else is the thing that happened in your life that changed you forever or partly?
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