Lets talk about Aphasia

Christine Penn
5 min readOct 11, 2022
Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash

If you are not familiar with the term, lets start off with a quick definition — loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage.

I think I likely have it, but it’s never been diagnosed as of yet. My issues stem on the expression side, not necessarily on the understanding side. And this is where it gets a little complicated. There are tons of different impediments with lots of different labels…

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Christine Penn

Trans woman, parent, cyclist, software engineer, author, chef, and many other things.