Impolitic Speech with Brain Injury

Stories of Impolitic Speech after Brain Injury

The following are stories of real life survivors of brain injury.  Clicking on the titles will take you to their actual story.

 Frontal Lobe and Executive Functioning Challenges After Coma

 She also has problems with impolitic speech, impatience and independence.

Particular Frontal Lobe Challenges After Severe Brain Injury

Betty, like most severely brain injured survivors has issues with impulsivity and impolitic speech. She just doesn’t know quite when not to express exactly what is on her mind. She gives the example of how, at least from her perception, she ruined Christmas. Betty states;”My husband and I went to his ex-wife’s Christmas morning to open up Christmas gifts and she handed me a gift and I opened it up and it was a plastic popcorn popper. I looked at it and I kinda made a smirk and I said, “you gave us this last year.”