my MisSpoken

I started this blog as a way to make sense of any feeling or emotions  I encounter while I try to figure out why my life suddenly and abruptly changed one day when I was betrayed by the one thing I could always rely on--my brain. Suddenly, I was blending all of my words together and blanking when I talked. Almost as if I went to reach for something I knew was on a shelf, only to find it empty.

 

I suddenly couldn't tell how certain words or sentences were supposed to fit together, and when I went to type, I had cognitive dissonance between my brain and the keyboard. I would repeatedly press the key next to the letter that I was trying to type. As a college English professor, I cannot even begin to explain how this effected my teaching as well as my identity. Errors and incorrect word usage suddenly riddled my quizzes and assignment prompts. Two words kept coming up when I researched my symptoms. If I don't have it, this blog will never see the internet. If I do, maybe I can help someone else find "normal" in the madness. That someone may be me.