Yeah — I have mild verbal paraphasia at baseline, but it becomes extremely severe if I’m tired or overly stressed. I used to compete in speaking and presentation stuff at an international level and now it’s like … in a previous job, we were doing 5+ interviews with teenagers for our summer program positions each day and it got chaotic. By the end of the week, I couldn’t string a sentence together even though I had a list of questions in a document and the teens were like, “…why can’t the person running the writing program communicate effectively?”
(It does cross into writing sometimes and looks like mistakes that a non-native speaker would make except I am a native speaker who still writes for a living. “Medal” instead of “metal,” “what” instead of “that,” etc. I just refuse to do things like taking notes for meetings because the first time I write something down may end up being chaotic. With time to revise and digital tools to check my work, I can still submit clean copy to my editors.)
Yeah — I have mild verbal paraphasia at baseline, but it becomes extremely severe if I’m tired or overly stressed. I used to compete in speaking and presentation stuff at an international level and now it’s like … in a previous job, we were doing 5+ interviews with teenagers for our summer program positions each day and it got chaotic. By the end of the week, I couldn’t string a sentence together even though I had a list of questions in a document and the teens were like, “…why can’t the person running the writing program communicate effectively?”
(It does cross into writing sometimes and looks like mistakes that a non-native speaker would make except I am a native speaker who still writes for a living. “Medal” instead of “metal,” “what” instead of “that,” etc. I just refuse to do things like taking notes for meetings because the first time I write something down may end up being chaotic. With time to revise and digital tools to check my work, I can still submit clean copy to my editors.)