Or, you might find yourself jumping from one topic to another, perhaps not completing thoughts or sentences before switching gears. If you’re unable to retrieve the memory of a word, for example, it might manifest as long pauses in your speech pattern. These changes may impact the brain regions associated with language, but on a larger scale could impact: Research from 2020 suggests that schizophrenia speech patterns may be part of larger cognitive decline involving structural changes in the brain as well as disturbances in neural network function and communication. And hey, kudos for actually having the confidence and conviction to appear on television.The exact causes of thought disorder are still unclear.Īs a symptom seen across multiple disorders, experts believe disorganized speech has a complex origin, and what contributes to it in one condition may not be what leads to it in another. I figured that even if I heard a snigger or a confused laugh, it meant that someone in the audience was actually listening to what I was saying and not day-dreaming about the menu in the tavern.Īnyway, far from being a nuisance or distraction, your ‘speech impediment’ gives you a very unique style and serves to positively distinguish you from other ‘normal’ presenters out there. But I found that having to speak very slowly and very deliberately (and even then still stammering) actually served me very well, because it made my presentation style all the more unique. I would much rather have walked in front of a bus than get up in front of a crowd and start talking. I also have a speech impediment (stammer) and presentations used to be very difficult for me. Your programs have gotten me through many banging-my-head-against-my-desk-trying-to-nut-out-an-assignment episodes. Your enthusiasm for history is infectious and sometimes threatens to knock me off my chair. Many thanks Darren for your generous response! LucyĪt risk of repeating the comments already posted, I just wanted to say that I think your presentation style is engaging, energising and just simply wonderful. Even though you have lost a viewer, rest assured that I feel embarrassed and chastened and will not be sending any more email outbursts (to anyone). My unkind and blunt words were an instant and disproportional response to my annoyance with a speech impediment which is obviously out of your control. I apologise! Even though I revel in my ignorance and rudeness I would not wish to upset you face to face and the anonymity of the internet made me forget this.
Please do re-consider, and maybe even retract your unkind words! Lucy Oh Darrren, I think you’ve taken refuge behind the anonymity of the internet to say something that you probably wouldn’t say to my face. I’ll be blunt (apologies) Please try harder to correct your lazy speech or remove ‘R’s’ from your scripts – I could not sit through Bolsover Castle – and became so annoyed I had to write this drivel. So, I’m sowwy, but I don’t think there’s much I can do about it.) But I promise you it’s not for want of trying on my part! I have even consulted a specialist speech therapist, and she said that to cure the problem I’d have to say ‘R’ correctly as many times as I have said it incorrectly in the past. (Apparently my problem is my enormously long tongue – its great length means that it rather lazily won’t take the trouble to curl up and form the letter ‘R’ properly. While I have not exactly displayed heroism on the Mary Beard scale, it will warm the hearts of the speech-impedimented everywhere. A true email conversation recently conducted through my website reveals an unexpected moment of courtesy in cyberspace.
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