words.

I was thinking about language. My husband had a friend come into town who's from Japan. I was talking to him and I reminded myself "just because he's not fluent in English doesn't mean he's stupid." I realize we often talk to people who are either
1. Not fluent in the current spoken language, or
2. Hard of hearing
as if they are stupid. Or sometimes we just think of them that way. Like if you have to talk slow to a foreigner automatically you percieve that person as slow.
So, bringing this full circle, sometimes the brain injured are just speaking another language, even if...say...you're like me and you don't talk normal. YOU, brain injured people, have you ever just forgotten a simple word but you know what you're talking about but it makes you look like your unintelligent?
My husband's friend was talking to some people in Japanese and I realized I was understanding about as much as I was picking up when I went to Sprinkler World yesterday....what I'm trying to say is that I got NOTHING from it. And its not that I'm stupid because I can't understand Japanese-- if more people could it would be the universal language-- and thats the same with sprinkler talk. I just don't know. No ones taught me about it in the language I speak. If I lose a word, maybe I just don't speak the same english as you. Right?