{"id":1380,"date":"2014-12-11T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2016-10-19T14:33:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:33:47","slug":"k-i-s-s-keep-it-simple-sweetie-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/?p=1380","title":{"rendered":"K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Sweetie (part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Linda W. Arms, dated January 24, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n

Understanding\u00a0 spoken communications is often difficult with an injured brain.\u00a0 \u00a0In a conversation, there is SO MUCH happening that you don\u2019t think about.\u00a0\u00a0 The brain that is receiving the words\/sentences is very busy as it processes all the pieces that make up the spoken communication.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is the volume, speed and clarity of the words as I mentioned in my last post. \u00a0 Here are a few more tips for family, friends and caregivers to help us with injured brains understand things more easily:<\/p>\n

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  1. Don’t use a lot of complexity in your conversation<\/span> \u2013 long sentences, big words, new words, acronyms add to the complexity that needs to be deciphered by our brain.\u00a0\u00a0 An injured brain often has to strain to work through this complexity making it fatiguing and sometimes frustrating for the person trying to understand what is said.<\/li>\n
  2. Don’t use double negatives<\/span> \u2013 I have a real problem with this.\u00a0\u00a0 When someone says \u201cIsn\u2019t it true that you did not eat breakfast?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 My brain gets tangled on unraveling the two NOT\u2019s and I don\u2019t know how to answer.\u00a0\u00a0 This is just one example but people often speak with several negatives in a sentence which confuses the heck out of me and my brain is stumbling about trying figure it out.\u00a0\u00a0 Fatiguing\u2026.\u00a0 Frustrating\u2026.<\/li>\n
  3. Try to tone down the emotion<\/span> \u2013 Adding a strong emotion to what is being said is another part that needs to be processed by the brain.\u00a0\u00a0 For me, negative emotions that the speaker is conveying in their conversation is a burden for my brain even when the emotion is not directed at me. \u00a0\u00a0Anger or frustration in the conversation is another piece that our brains have to do something with as we are trying to understand what is being said to us.\u00a0 It gets in the way of easily understanding.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And there is more to say about all this\u2026 next time.\u00a0\u00a0 Just remember, K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, sweetie) \u00a0if you want the person with the injured brain to be more successful in understanding what is being said, and you don\u2019t want to create unnecessary fatigue or frustration.<\/p>\n

    K.I.S.S. – Keep It Simple Sweetie (Part 1)<\/a><\/p>\n

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    by Linda W. Arms, dated January 24, 2013 Understanding\u00a0 spoken communications is often difficult with an injured brain.\u00a0 \u00a0In a conversation, there is SO MUCH happening that you don\u2019t think about.\u00a0\u00a0 The brain that is receiving the words\/sentences is very busy as it processes all the pieces that make up the spoken communication.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is the volume, speed and clarity of the words as I mentioned in my last post. \u00a0 Here are a few more tips for family, friends… 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-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2GcQn-mg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","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=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrainfairy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}