I'm not sure which of the two EASE items this precisely falls under, but it is definitely one of these two:
Quote:
1.16 Discordance between Intended Expression and
the Expressed (A.7.2)
Subjective experience of not being able to express oneself
according to one’s actual feelings and emotions. The
patient experiences that his speech, behavior, gestures
and facial expressions are not in line, or congruent, with
what he feels; his expressivity is felt to be disfi gured and
distorted and somehow beyond self-control.
1.17 Disturbance of Expressive Language Function
(C.1.7)
Self-experienced impediment of speech, with a defi -
cient actualization or mobilization of adequate words.
The patient recognizes an impairment and retardation of
his word fl uency, precision, or availability. He cannot recall
the precise words, or it takes him much longer to mobilize
them. Sometimes he recalls words that are only
peripherally and imprecisely associated with the context.
The patient may cope with this disturbance by using
common, customary and well-known expressions, sayings
(cliché language), or by keeping silent and avoiding
conversation (secondary autism).
You can find a link to the EASE in Raziel's miss-dx thread.
I have what I call the flower pot problem. It isn't the greatest metaphor, but I find I have difficult framing what I say, when I have to do an unprepared lengthy explanation under pressure, in a way that gives an accurate picture to someone. At times in my life this has been troubling. One example that comes to mind was back in 2002 when I had just entered college. I got into a car accident and told my side of the story to the police. After I got the police report on the accident, what the police officer said I said was so very different from what I had intended to say, and it made me look a lot worse than the reality! That pretty much killed any chance I had of successfully denying fault. The police officer had gotten a completely different impression from what I had intended to say! Needless to say, I found this very troubling at the time.
In a way, I liken this to taking a photograph of a person standing next to a flower pot. I try to focus in on the person, so I go through the process of focusing in on the person and take a picture. When I see the photograph, however, it is rather the flower pot that I had actually focused on! Were I to show somebody that picture, they would see my focus was on the flower pot and not the person, given a distorted impression. This doesn't capture it perfectly, but it's like I have difficulty, when under pressure, correctly framing something that is complex. There have been other times where I've had this problem, though I cannot think of them clearly, but that police report example was the most troubling.
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02 Mar 2014, 12:17 am
