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RE: My Post Concussive Syndrome Speech Disorder: A Malfunctioning Word Queue
Topic: Science 10:46 am EST, Feb 12, 2009

Jello wrote:
Last Monday I was in a car accident and suffered a severe concussion that didn't manifest symptoms for 24 hours (weird, I know). Since then I've periodically lost the ability to speak. I go from normal speech to slurring, to mute. Its being looked at, but the reason I made this thread is because... I realized that it is exactly like TCP packets overloading the sliding window, or a web server with limited resources getting too many requests: overload the throughput on the queue and everything after that is lost.

So I made a diagram tonight when I had a bad episode to prove I can still think.

When things are bad, and I fill the shrunken word queue, I can't speak until it self empties. Full empty seems to take between 30 seconds and one minute, and seems to happen at a linear rate. However, if I limit myself to the actual word queue/minute throughput, I can speak continuously for a longer period. Normal speed speech very quickly fills the queue though.

Strange, but accurate. If my mind is a Turing Machine, my word queue is malfunctioning and is too small to hold enough words to speak normally.

Sorry to hear about that, can't imagine what that feels like. Wishing you a full recovery.

Thought you might find this of interest:

Scott Adams remaps his brain

RE: My Post Concussive Syndrome Speech Disorder: A Malfunctioning Word Queue



 
 
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