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repeating words forward and backward

Sun, 08/27/2006 - 01:17
I have temporal lobe epilepsy and for as long as I can remember, at times during the day (when I am tired, stressed, etc...) I get a word stuck in my head that I repeat (in my mind)forwards then backwards. This goes on - back and forth - for awhile. Sometimes I get focused on adding numbers up and repeating the math problem forwards and backwards. I don't know if this is just a weird nervous habit or a symptom of my seizures. Has anyone else out there ever experienced this?

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Re: repeating words forward and backward

Submitted by sayslaw on Wed, 2009-03-18 - 12:09

Hey, Coop,

I'm an obsessive compulsive, and so I use verbal and arithematic patterns to soothe me. To the average person, who cannot find the beauty in patterns and actually dreads homework, this kind of soothing may seem proposterous. Hell, I've even been called a savant. Talk is cheap. It's all about who gets the last laugh. I'd laughed harder about who made the honor roll than big, dumb bullies.

It may seem as if I'm going to start babbling but I'm not...

If all magels are gagles, then all gagels must be magels. How about, if all Canadians are Democrats, then all Democrats are Canadians? Now, is that statement true? ....if you started repeating magels and gagles in public, instead of Democrats and Canadians few would appreciate its intelligence, although many have read Dr. Seuss.

 What I did was a skill. I took the form of the original sentence, mentally replaced obscurity with familiar words, to interpret it. Creating structure from chaos. Dr. Seuss would do the opposite by taking a sentence structure and adding obscure rhymes. There's a wocket in my pocket...is it a coin...is it a pencil...is it a lizard? The opposite of getting order from chaos is getting chaos from order.

pattern thinking is a type of intelligence it's a TALENT or LTETAN.

Pattern thinking, logic...etc.. are beneficial.

Consider, the average person uses less than 10% of the brain's potential

And so, those who use 10% or more have an advantage!

Keep up the nervous habit, buy $0.99 dell word game magazines.

Hell, practice the Gross Domestic Product formula backwards: (M-X) + G+ I + C

Where did the gift come from? OCD, TLE, etc...Do we stare at the the label on a Christmas gift for hours or open it and enjoy the gift inside?

 

 

 

 

Hey, Coop,

I'm an obsessive compulsive, and so I use verbal and arithematic patterns to soothe me. To the average person, who cannot find the beauty in patterns and actually dreads homework, this kind of soothing may seem proposterous. Hell, I've even been called a savant. Talk is cheap. It's all about who gets the last laugh. I'd laughed harder about who made the honor roll than big, dumb bullies.

It may seem as if I'm going to start babbling but I'm not...

If all magels are gagles, then all gagels must be magels. How about, if all Canadians are Democrats, then all Democrats are Canadians? Now, is that statement true? ....if you started repeating magels and gagles in public, instead of Democrats and Canadians few would appreciate its intelligence, although many have read Dr. Seuss.

 What I did was a skill. I took the form of the original sentence, mentally replaced obscurity with familiar words, to interpret it. Creating structure from chaos. Dr. Seuss would do the opposite by taking a sentence structure and adding obscure rhymes. There's a wocket in my pocket...is it a coin...is it a pencil...is it a lizard? The opposite of getting order from chaos is getting chaos from order.

pattern thinking is a type of intelligence it's a TALENT or LTETAN.

Pattern thinking, logic...etc.. are beneficial.

Consider, the average person uses less than 10% of the brain's potential

And so, those who use 10% or more have an advantage!

Keep up the nervous habit, buy $0.99 dell word game magazines.

Hell, practice the Gross Domestic Product formula backwards: (M-X) + G+ I + C

Where did the gift come from? OCD, TLE, etc...Do we stare at the the label on a Christmas gift for hours or open it and enjoy the gift inside?

 

 

 

 

Re: repeating words forward and backward

Submitted by tonialpha on Sat, 2008-12-13 - 22:32

I love these comments!  My focus is in the temporal lobe area.  I have had surgery twice.  Just as I am trying to remember something a word will be repeated and it is a partial seizure and I sound like a broken record.  It sounds worped!  It gets weird at times when the word makes no sense and then I go into a partial complex and then I have know idea.  My friends say I hug or flap my hands in the air and stop speaking and sometimes walk in a circle.  After the seizure I cannot think straight and forgot the word I was saying!  That is only w/ the partial complexes only!!!!!!! 

The partials I will remember the word for the day.  I have to write it down.  My doc has witnessed me having a flurry of seizures and will do a math problem or ask me to spell backwards and the words stick in my head!

I understand only to well!

I love these comments!  My focus is in the temporal lobe area.  I have had surgery twice.  Just as I am trying to remember something a word will be repeated and it is a partial seizure and I sound like a broken record.  It sounds worped!  It gets weird at times when the word makes no sense and then I go into a partial complex and then I have know idea.  My friends say I hug or flap my hands in the air and stop speaking and sometimes walk in a circle.  After the seizure I cannot think straight and forgot the word I was saying!  That is only w/ the partial complexes only!!!!!!! 

The partials I will remember the word for the day.  I have to write it down.  My doc has witnessed me having a flurry of seizures and will do a math problem or ask me to spell backwards and the words stick in my head!

I understand only to well!

Re: repeating words forward and backward

Submitted by slhmurphy on Sun, 2006-08-27 - 09:24
C, Hi there. I personally have never heard of this phenomena, but anything is possible. Perhaps this is some higher-order seizure activity, especially considering it happens when you are tired or stressed. If you think about it, when a seizure occurs it is a rapid-firing of neurons in a somewhat discernable pattern, that is most of the time they follow the same progression. These seem like higher-order seizure activity, ie. a response to an overabundance of activity but highly spontaneous and purposeless. Interesting... Sorry I can't be of more assistance. If your epileptologist or neurologist is a researcher they might very well be interested in hearing about this. Sam

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