Kym Brockoff shares how aphasia has affected his language | The Senior | November 7, 2023
There are different types of aphasia. Kym Brockoff shared how the disease has affected his ability to speak, and how he gets around it.
Video courtesy Aphasia Victoria
Video courtesy Aphasia Victoria
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00:00 There is my language.
00:05 My language, I'll get exactly word I want to have many years ago.
00:12 Now is my language.
00:15 Here's my language now.
00:18 Here.
00:19 I do, you know the movie called Groundhog Day?
00:28 That's this me.
00:29 I do the same things every day.
00:32 I have a coffee.
00:34 I have a weak latte.
00:36 I'll say, "Have a weak latte, please."
00:38 Everyone say, "Fine, no problem.
00:42 You're fine."
00:43 Then I say, "If you get a different coffee, tell me another coffee."
00:50 I can't tell you that.
00:56 I couldn't say it.
00:57 So I just say, "Weak latte, please."
01:01 That's my life.
01:02 If I want to get a different thing, oh Jesus, I can't say that.
01:07 I have to write it down or, you know, I want that thing there.
01:10 me.
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