Talking is hard ... sometimes

[jeshyr]

I can talk just fine. I babble an absolute ton when I have the energy to do it!

But when I get tired it gets harder and harder … it’s not that I can’t talk, it’s that instead of pulling words off the tip of the tounge I have to trek over to the nearest mental fishing hole, set up my mental fishing rod and bait the mental hook and sit there until I metaphorically 'catch' the word I want, then mentally trek back to the conversation I’m trying to have and THEN I can say it. The amount of energy it takes to "fetch" a word goes up as my total amount of available energy goes down, so the net effect is that I get quieter and quieter and quieter as my energy goes down.

I just wanted to share this because I wrote the above paragraph in email and it's one of those things I occasionally try to describe to people and - usually - fail utterly and I really like this description. So saving for posterity :)

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Comments

[jesse_the_k]

You have exactly described my own communication fatigue. I never called this aphasia because I thought aphasia was faster than this. Just yesterday it took a minute to get a sentence out. At that rate I often can't remember what the earlier words were, or the impetus to speak in the first place.

The Stickman Conversation cards are brilliant! Thanks for