# Witnessing your own mental decay

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**Created:** [August 12, 2023, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing-your-own-mental-decay/988436 "2023-08-12T02:01:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 12, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/witnessing-your-own-mental-decay/988436/26 "2023-08-12T15:46:53Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> It’s always a noun,

You might have this:

> **[Anomic aphasia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomic_aphasia)**
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> Anomic aphasia (also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia) is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where individuals have word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). By contrast, anomia is a deficit of expressive language, and a symptom of all forms of aphasia, but patients whose primary deficit is word retrieval are diagnosed with anomic aphasia. Individuals with aphasia who display anomia can often describe an object Anomi...

Since you’ve had it as a child, it’s probably a part of your brain wiring rather than the more typical case of developing as you age.

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