{"id":1375,"date":"2014-12-04T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T17:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2016-10-19T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:32:42","slug":"k-i-s-s-keep-it-simple-sweetie-part-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Sweetie (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Linda W. Arms, dated January 17, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n

This is for family, friends, caregivers and the many people who are part of providing medical services to those with brain injuries.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0First of all, thank you for your care and concern during our journeys from our brain injury event to where we find ourselves today.\u00a0\u00a0 It is not easy for you either since you probably have to do a lot more because of things we\u00a0aren’t\u00a0able to do.\u00a0\u00a0 You also have to have an extreme amount of patience.\u00a0\u00a0 It is not an easy job. \u00a0 We want you to understand us but sometimes it hard to know ourselves.<\/p>\n

Comprehending what is said to us is a big problem for many of us with a brain injury.\u00a0\u00a0 The words coming at us often don\u2019t sink in for a variety of reasons.\u00a0\u00a0 This makes it difficult for us to understand what is being said and it can be very fatiguing<\/span> and frustrating.\u00a0\u00a0 Once we\u2019re \u201cbrain fatigued\u201d everything else is difficult until we have a chance to recover.<\/p>\n

Here are some very friendly reminders to make communication easier for us:<\/p>\n

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  1. Speak slowly<\/span> – my injured brain has to hear the words and also process them.\u00a0\u00a0 My brain can\u2019t keep up with what\u2019s coming at me if words are coming too fast. \u00a0I have to make my brain work a lot harder to keep up with a fast pace (sometimes I don\u2019t even try).<\/li>\n
  2. Speak clearly<\/span> \u2013 it takes a lot more brain processing to hear the words when someone is mumbling or speaking towards a different direction so sound is not coming straight at us. \u00a0 Someone with a brain injury may have to spend a lot of brain energy just to hear the sounds let alone process what the words mean.<\/li>\n
  3. Get to the point more directly without meandering into other side topics<\/span>\u00a0 – The injured brain may have problems remembering what was said 60 seconds ago especially if unfamiliar topics are being discussed.\u00a0\u00a0 We are trying to keep track of the conversation but if there is a roundabout presentation of the topic of discussion we will often get lost.\u00a0\u00a0 I have found myself trying to remember what seems to be important points but the speaker is going off in other directions.\u00a0\u00a0 My poor brain is working hard just to remember those points as other words are coming at me that don\u2019t seem to be part of the main topic.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    by Linda W. Arms, dated January 17, 2013 This is for family, friends, caregivers and the many people who are part of providing medical services to those with brain injuries.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0First of all, thank you for your care and concern during our journeys from our brain injury event to where we find ourselves today.\u00a0\u00a0 It is not easy for you either since you probably have to do a lot more because of things we\u00a0aren’t\u00a0able to do.\u00a0\u00a0 You also have to… Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2GcQn-mb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}