how come

[myra]

children/adults with SEN and no speech can always swear .ive worked in this fieldfor 20years and also have a 36 year old who dosnt have any speech or noises at all never has had.
last night just as he was recovering from a tonic clonic seizure, he took a bout of the sneezes and just as he was about to sneeze he shouted very clearly at the top of his voice OH FUCK, this happened about 5 times before he fell asleep due to him having recieved his emergency meds , this morning i was joking with him and telling him about it and he just smiled, there has been nothing else today.


myra

[purplepidjin]

So true!!! I work with a lady who can only make "s" sounds, and I could swear she is trying to say "shit" sometimes!

[signandsay]

I worked with a guy who had a (very early) stroke, and the stuff that was clearest and most fluent was def the swearing,

This is making me think.... I swear like a trooper and have always laughed that I would have to stop if ds started talking, maybe that's what he will come out with..

[purplepidjin]

It's probably because swear words are the ones said with most emotion. When did you last call someone a stupid fucking bitch without really meaning it? lol

[auntevil]

My mum has alzheimers, and often in the latter stages they get very angry - aggressive and verbally abusive. apparently anger is the last emotion to leave them. so now that she has no recollection of who i am, and very little pleasure in anything in her life, she still shouts angrily if someone makes a noise she doesn't like.
Just a thought, but maybe neurological problems with speech are the same. it is easier to elicit communication in anger than the other emotions?

[Tiggles]

It's because swear words are created in a different part of the brain to normal speech, this article talks about it although it doesn't explain it particularly well, imo, but just off to cook the tea, quickest I could find.