Aug 6, 2026 · 10 min · 6 segments
Do you finish his sentences or jump in during the pause? If you love someone with aphasia, this explains how rushing takes away his voice. Although leaving would be easier, you stayed for love. Build…
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They bulldoze past the person with aphasia or dysarthria trying to communicate with them, or it just becomes too much work for them, so it's much easier to just ignore the person with aphasia.
And when this happens over and over again, it chips away at the person with aphasia's identity.
It reinforces the lie that says, "You don't matter in this conversation." So we could have two moments, right? We could h- have had Matt's situation where the police officer was not willing to stop and listen to Matt's explanation.
He could've, it could have gone drastically the other way, and Matt could have been hauled off to jail and have to go through what he'd have to do there to prove that, no, he had not been drinking, that, yes, this is a speech problem.
Sometimes what we see is not what is the reality, but we have to be very careful because how we treat the person with aphasia, it matters to their identity.
If you're constantly being beat down, ignored, why would you try? Someone with aphasia might be thinking, "They think I'm confused.
They think I'm drunk." And then when the care partner or the friend or the police officer jumps in and jumps to conclusions, or fills in a space, or inserts a word 'cause they think they know what the person's thinking of because there's that dreaded silence, that's where there's so much misunderstanding.
They bulldoze past the person with aphasia or dysarthria trying to communicate with them, or it just becomes too much work for them, so it's much easier to just ignore the person with aphasia.
And when this happens over and over again, it chips away at the person with aphasia's identity.
It reinforces the lie that says, "You don't matter in this conversation." So we could have two moments, right? We could h- have had Matt's situation where the police officer was not willing to stop and listen to Matt's explanation.
He could've, it could have gone drastically the other way, and Matt could have been hauled off to jail and have to go through what he'd have to do there to prove that, no, he had not been drinking, that, yes, this is a speech problem.
Sometimes what we see is not what is the reality, but we have to be very careful because how we treat the person with aphasia, it matters to their identity.
If you're constantly being beat down, ignored, why would you try? Someone with aphasia might be thinking, "They think I'm confused.
They think I'm drunk." And then when the care partner or the friend or the police officer jumps in and jumps to conclusions, or fills in a space, or inserts a word 'cause they think they know what the person's thinking of because there's that dreaded silence, that's where there's so much misunderstanding.
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