stackyFACTSBroca's aphasia traps flawless understanding inside a broken vocal mechanism. The patient knows exactly what they want to communicate, but the motor-speech outputs strictly produce halting, agonizingly slow syllables. You become a perfectly functioning mind locked inside a mute meat suit.
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