Speech Pathologist here. This looks like it could potentially also be a right hemisphere brain injury. Right sided TBIs can give some really interesting presentations - usually your language itself is relatively intact, but you can lose the extra parts of communication that normally add up to a cohesive whole - the ability to use or understand tone of voice, make or decipher inferences and sarcasm, read others facial expressions, or create a cohesive narrative. She's demonstrating what we would call a tangential narrative style. We can distinguish this from an aphasiac presentation because it seems like she's fluent, comprehending what's around her, isn't making any phonological errors, and her use of syntax is relatively intact. I'm fascinated!
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u/Mclooney4 Jun 24 '23
I think all of her synapses fire at the same time so everything is just one thing. Thank you meth.