Stupid Does, What Stupid Is

Kate Emfinger

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Just now

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Embrace

There’s no such claim to being new and improved. Only newly improved. Or something 🫥

Having a voice can be something useful. It can also be:

— something confusing

— something that gets us in trouble

— something that gets us out of trouble

— something that replaces, reconstructs, or removes words or phrases that are different than what our brains tell us we are saying and on the fly — a

This is what’s termed as “aphasia”. It can also affect the understanding, reading, and/or writing of language.

It is important to note that it does *not* affect intelligence. Repeat after me: “Just because they/I sound dumb, that doesn’t mean they are/I am dumb.”

For all anyone would know (unless of course, you do know something of it) —

“The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.” — Stephen Hawking