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If you have problems with word muddling do you still have the same problem when writing
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This is a very interesting question.
I think I can write better than I talk but I used to be a good speller and now sometimes my mind goes completely blank when I try to spell certain words and they don't even have to be complicated.
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I can write better than I speak when I'mhaving problems with word nuddling but it is always very messy as I forget bits and insert words or paras later. It is much worse when I am tired.
I agree with the two comments before me!
Hi
On the issue of word muddling, for me I also muddle words I am writing and as I work in BSL ( British Sign Language) I also sign the wrong word too, and where sometimes the word I muddle will be associated with the word I want eg cooker becomes fridge, the sign I 'mis-sign'also is similarly linked!! I find after Migraine particularly I am very bad with words, and it improves a little while I am Migraine free, Then 'bam' Migraine hits and I am back to muddling up words again. But at least since diagnosis (2years) Aspirin has dramatically reduced Migraine down to about 1-2 per month, with sometimes 6 weeks without a Migraine. Happy days!!
CarolBSL
It is worst at the end of the day, or when i an tired
Hi APsnotFab.
Thinking about it I have that problem too and put it down to typos but I think it is probablymore than that.
Dave
In addition to spelling errors (and typos because of hand damage from a stroke), on "off" days, I omit words, conflate two words, repeat words, type wrong words, or substitute words that "sound like" the word I want (right for height, for example). This all was much worse after my stroke, but it still happens on "off" days, or at odd moments.
Due to stroke, my word finding skills, either verbal or written, are as erratic as APS itself. Sometimes they are almost nonfunctional, sometimes they are right on. If my thinking is muddled it only makes sense that the transposure in writing would follow and then the transfer to verbal error. Just yesterday, I had an episode of complete freezing of words for about an half hour. Could not form a word to save my life. Then I was asked a question and answered as though nothing was previously wrong. Go figure. It was like a sputter in a motor of an older car. But I'll make note of it in my journal and that is about as far as it will get. It may never happen again, it may happen more frequently. I don't know. I've learned not to worry about it and just take what comes. Sometimes I do that easily, sometimes not so easily, sometimes I get outraged at the confinement of my free will. But all I have to do is forget my medication and I cannot stutter a word out for love nor money. The stutter is so intense that it is kinder to everyone else not to try unless they have witnessed it before. Then I remember how lucky I really am. Clonozapam is a miracle drug in that way for me. It gives me back my speech eliminating indescribable frustration in trying to communicate the simplist of ideas.
I find that I often miss the first letter of what I mean to write, as in I ight rite he ords ike his !
Writing is much better but I'll often combine words like with and the to 'withe' or words like potassium I spell pottasium so I'll double the wrong letter. I've got the kids thinking I'm testing their literacy now. Which of course I am...
I know I write better than I speak. I went back to college after getting out of the military, and graduated with high marks. My business writing class was one of my best courses.
