#anomia

I am watching those liminal space analog horror things that contain a

Creature

And I am trying so hard not to laugh. At the idea of a guy getting trapped in a backrooms hell maze with a beast. And only alerted the monster cause he ripped cheeks and the sound echos off the walls.

Us: "What?"

Our girlfriend: "You know -"

I am trying to use easier words and shorter sentences to help with my speech and writing.

I can’t spell or say hard words, this slows me down.

I use filler text, I am trying to stop this.

Hard words and filler text makes it harder for others to read.

I started to do this because I would get lower marks on essays because I used simple language.

School messing me up again.

School taught me to rewrite so my sentences sounded better.

It taught me to rewrite so everything didn’t start with I.

This made my writing very slow as I couldn’t spell hard words.

I would lose track of what I had said. I found it hard to edit.

I have been writing emails without using hard to spell words.

If I get stuck on a word, I choose easier words.

I rewrite only to fix errors or make it simpler, enough so am understood.

Simple writing means am less likely to be misunderstood.

I worried that I would come across as not smart if I used simple language. Which unfortunately is true, this happened at school.

If you write in a simple way people don’t listen to the point you are making. to them simple language means you are not smart, so they think what you are saying isn’t smart.

I don’t care anymore, this is ablest and anyone who is like this can get stuffed.

I know a lot of words but using big words is not helpful to me or the people reading my text.

Less words means less words to remember spelling of.

Writing this way is easier for me and helps me get less tired writing.

Sometimes if brain is fried, sentences have to be very short.

At home I use single words like “drinky” rather then “can I have a drink please” my wife knows what it means.

Me, as a DM, to my players: “You hear something… it sounds like it’s coming from below the kitchen, in the larder — the larder? — the larder.”

One of my (cishet male) players: “Mmhm, yes, the larder. Larder is correct.”

Me, in my mind: [How would you even know since you don’t know what I’m describing?? But thank you for the unnecessary validation, Steve…]

I would bet money that Steve either 1) has heard that word one time before and doesn’t really remember what it means, but is seizing upon the opportunity to seem like he knows because what confidence I did have in saying it tells him it’s probably correct therefore the stakes are low and by “confirming” it will make him seem smart, possibly even smarter than me, or 2) definitely does know that word and what it means because he’s obsessed with accruing obscure medieval knowledge, and will not only take every opportunity to make me aware of that, but is silently judging me for “trying” to use words he thinks I don’t know or have any right knowing even though the only reason I spoke with any doubt in the first place is not due to my lack of vocabulary but my disability and a general lack of self-confidence that he’s actually actively contributing to by acting like this.

Anomia is the the medical condition where individuals forget the names of common items or even proper names. – WTF Fun Facts