Jef_Wheaton t1_iw0c0fm wrote on November 11, 2022 at 11:17 PM

Reply to comment by immigrantpatriot in Analysts entirely misread the Fetterman-Oz debate. These graphs show how wrong they were by immigrantpatriot

My friend had a CVST (like a stroke, but in a vein instead of an artery) at age 20. During recovery, she said it was like taking every word you'd ever learned, writing them on little pieces of paper, throwing them in a huge pile, then trying to piece them together to form sentences. Sometimes she would be asked what an object was. She KNEW it was a cup, she could THINK "Cup", but she couldn't SAY Cup.

She recovered, and went on to get a Masters in Microbiology.

I'm glad your friend survived her aneurysm. That's what killed Mythbuster Grant Imihara.

immigrantpatriot OP t1_iw0d8qu wrote on November 11, 2022 at 11:26 PM

I am bonkers happy for your friend, even though she rudely draws attention to my solidly average grade in bio right now with no stroke.

And yeah, I accidentally left out, it sometimes takes my friend a minute to come up with the exact word she wants to use in a given situation, but her mastery of concepts, including futurism in tech (I say bc it's well beyond me. I didn't think 3D printers would ever be real) is 100%.

That's what some people refuse to accept: just bc you move through life differently, doesn't mean you're not as sharp or sharper than the next person. Honestly idk how people with really physically disabling issues but perfectly good brains get through the damn day, people are just jags in the extreme with this stuff. Ironically they can learn, but actively refuse to.

Thezedword4 t1_iw0vfmj wrote on November 12, 2022 at 1:54 AM

Can confirm. You obviously know it's a cup, you know you know the word cup, the word cup feels right on the edge of your tongue, but for the life of you, you cannot say cup.

I have the same issue due to brain damage. The way people react is ridiculous. I'm just as intelligent as I always was, I still am a masters educated historian even if I can't fucking say cup sometimes. But everyone thinks you're dumb because of it. Which is well, dumb.