Aphasia Makes You Lost in the Middle of nowhere (literally and not literally) …

Does it ever occur to you that we might lose our language? I mean your ability to understand people’s language and ability to make yours to be understood. It just lost, you suddenly do not understand what others tell you neither your speech to others? Surely that would be the most terrifying thing I ever imagine. You are like living in isolation, you desperately want to get involved in one talk, and you want everybody, anybody to understand what you say. However you cannot do that, your brain is like blocking you from doing that and you realize that. You desperately want to understand and to be understood, but you cannot do anything. Gosh! It is pretty scary and extremely frustrating.

I have no idea what it feels like without language. I mean, c’mon people! How do you let a book keeper take your favorite book you want to buy? How do you enjoy reading your favorite book? How do you let your mom know you need money? How do you let your girl and boy friend know you love them so much? How do you let anybody know that you like or mad at them? Everything expressed through language people! Language! And now suddenly it is taken. You will just feel lost and all alone.

Well, I am not just daydreaming. There is a disease that might give you a deficiency of your language ability (perhaps many of you have known this one, but let me share what I think of that). The disease called aphasia. It is the result of certain damages in the part of your brain that have responsibility to control language. Those damages can be caused by stroke, head damage, brain infection, tumor, and all the troubles that may block your blood from flowing to your brain. It was mid-age people who often suffer from the disease, but children are also reported to have the disease. And it is because of the problem of the language acquisition development in their early age. The disease can come in a sudden, and go suddenly as well when your blood has its way back to flow to your brain.

Pretty scary huh?! Well, I just want to let you know that the language we have is worth gratitude, really…