Our brain wakes up so backwardsly 😅

We were able to think that post before we could make our body move and about 90 to 100 mins before we were able to partially-boot our verbal speech centre 🤦‍♀️ (Does this does count as a verbal boot or verbal startup maybe, like the opposite to a verbal shutdown?)

Mostly communicated with wife this morning via non-verbal communication, as well as non-speech noises, followed by a little bit of basic speech once it finally loaded around 10:30-ish.

Due to both wife and us being AuDHDers, she started unintentionally mirroring our speech pattern without realising 🤭 Even after realising, she still found herself mirroring it back to us.

What's even odder for us is that the part of our brain that deals with song lyrics is seemingly quite separate to normal speech. As such, if we attempt to (poorly) sing song lyrics, or even process speech in the format of a song (like a parody), we can almost converse normally.

Brains are weird 🤣

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