Im also aware that my brain likes to fill in the blanks and create sentences for me without me even knowing it. This is true of so many peoples day to day lives, at work, home, gym, social lives, the list is endless. I cant even count the amount of times in an average week that I don't hear the end of someones sentence because they walk in to another room while talking, lower their voice or turn their head away while talking to me. It makes for some really odd (and also funny!) sentences where I have a little chuckle to myself and carry on with the task in hand.
Turns out that "filling in the blanks" is an actual thing.....its called oronyms, which are sequences of words and sounds that sound similar to each other. There is a region of our brains called the angular gyrus that cleverly uses all of a persons previous life knowledge to fill in gaps where necessary with predictable replacements. Some days I feel like I'm in a real life game of hangman trying to fill in the gaps and blanks to make someones sentence make sense!
Until next time...
Sometimes I am the same, even though I'm hearing. Just smile and hope that covers it. And totally relate to the filling in the gaps. When I was deaf a bit during the spraying of west Auckland back in the day - I had a blocked up ear, and I heard the 'hello' then blah blah blah bucket. And then just said, "Yes you can pick up the worm bucket." I didn't even know who the person was on the phone, but guessed that he must be the worm man because who else would be talking about buckets. Made life interesting.
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DeleteHaha!! I know exactly what you mean!
Hi Tracey, I can relate to the picture a lot of times..HA! I just happened to follow you on Twitter due to deafness. I've been thinking about starting my blog about my deafness on how I adapted to the fact I'm really deaf. Could you share thru my Twitter as to which blog site you use? Is it Google+,blogger, or wordpress? Hope to hear from you. Thanks!
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Hi, thank you for your comment, I will have a look on twitter now. You should definitely do it. It has been so therapeutic for me over the last few months to know that people are going through the same thing. Good luck with the blog x
ReplyDeleteTrue! I learned a new word today, thanks! I wonder if Deaf* people do better than hearing people in hangman? ;)
ReplyDeleteHaha! Thanks for reading and for the comment :) x
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