how does a person become mute?
Bob
I can't think of many kids or young adults who become mute, but the
middle aged get several chronic diseases (e.g., goiter) which damage
the nerves and lose use of their vocal chords. And throat cancer can
require the removal of the larnyx. There is still some vestigal speech
though that can be retrained by physical therapy or electonically
enhanced. True mutes would be found among stroke victims.
E. McDermott
Area...@juno.com (AreaWoman) wrote:
>On 17 Mar 1997 21:30:35 GMT, "Amar" <ama...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>I don't know if this is off topic but I have an idea for a short story only I need to
>>know a possible way in which a person could become mute.
>Do you mean deaf? If so, going to too many hard rock concerts would
>do it. <g> Seriously, other very loud activities, such as people who
>work in loud environments and don't wear proper protection.
>Or maybe someone who comes out of a coma, has a stroke, etc., may be
>considered mute for some reason. Oh heck, I'm guessing here. Anyone
>have any ideas?
Cancer of the vocal cords.
AreaWoman
On 17 Mar 1997 21:30:35 GMT, "Amar" <ama...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I don't know if this is off topic but I have an idea for a short story only I need to
>know a possible way in which a person could become mute.
Do you mean deaf? If so, going to too many hard rock concerts would
do it. <g> Seriously, other very loud activities, such as people who
work in loud environments and don't wear proper protection.
Or maybe someone who comes out of a coma, has a stroke, etc., may be
considered mute for some reason. Oh heck, I'm guessing here. Anyone
have any ideas?
Jayne
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AreaWoman
On 18 Mar 1997 19:54:27 GMT, "Amar" <ama...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>No. I mean mute as in can't speak.
>>
Okay. Here's one: Guy gets into car accident, long piece of metal
slices his vocal cords. He becomes mute.
Not possible, you say?
WRONG!
It happend to my brother-in-law, but the doctors were able to do skin
grafts on one of his vocal cords. He can now speak, but his voice is
always raspy, like a constant sore throat.
Lane Browning
AreaWoman wrote:
>
> On 17 Mar 1997 21:30:35 GMT, "Amar" <ama...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >I don't know if this is off topic but I have an idea for a short story only I need to
> >know a possible way in which a person could become mute.
>
> Do you mean deaf? If so, going to too many hard rock concerts would
> do it. <g> Seriously, other very loud activities, such as people who
> work in loud environments and don't wear proper protection.
>
> Or maybe someone who comes out of a coma, has a stroke, etc., may be
> considered mute for some reason. Oh heck, I'm guessing here. Anyone
> have any ideas?
>
> Jayne
Traumatic mutism is fairly common (alas) among people who have witnessed
horros unspeakable. Many Cambodian women are unable to speak or even to
SEE (traumatic blindness) after the atrocities they witnessed.
My medical encyclopedia (doesn't the home of every writer have one of
these?) says mutism can be part of manic-depressive illness, catatonic
schizophrenia, or a rare form of conversion disorder. It can obviously
happen after a traumatic brain injury as well.
Akinetic mutism is intert passivity resulting from deep-seated brain
tumors or from hydrocephalus.
And that is all I have to "say" on the matter just now. :-)
Karen Hoskins
Extreme psychological shock ie seeing ones parents get killed in a
horrifying manner, being separated from parents during a war and not
being able to find them. Blunt force trauma to the vocal cords during a
crime such as being struck in the throat during robbery, rape etc. I
hope this is helpful and/or what you wanted to see.
Karen Hoskins knpo...@mail.idt.net
Gary J. Ingram
I know of two people who had damage to the nerves controlling their
vocal cords during surgery. Both of them can still talk, but it
certainly changed their voices. (One of them is a college student
studying _singing_. It was only supposed to be minor surgery...)
gary.
"Amar" <ama...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I don't know if this is off topic but I have an idea for a short story only I need to know a possible way in which a person could become mute. Not born like that but suffer from an accident or disease. All help would be appreciated. Oh ya this is my first post to this ng so Hello.
> -Amar
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E. McDermott wrote:
>
> Area...@juno.com (AreaWoman) wrote:
>
> >On 17 Mar 1997 21:30:35 GMT, "Amar" <ama...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >>I don't know if this is off topic but I have an idea for a short story only I need to
> >>know a possible way in which a person could become mute.
>
> >do it. <g> Seriously, other very loud activities, such as people who
> >work in loud environments and don't wear proper protection.
>
> >Or maybe someone who comes out of a coma, has a stroke, etc., may be
> >considered mute for some reason. Oh heck, I'm guessing here. Anyone
> >have any ideas?
>
I think the above probably satisfies the question of how one might
develop the condition when formerly one could speak. On the other hand,
way back in the recesses I seem to remember that if mommy was suffering
from an untreated venereal disease, . . . you get the picture, a baby
could be born deaf (sorry, I know that's not PC, but I haven't got time
to check Chairman Mao's Little Red Book right now), and if you've never
heard speech, you have one helluva time learning how to speak. Mute
means not being able to speak, and many deaf people can.
The other way to become "mute" is to be so severely trivialized (wait a
minute, The Chairman says "marginalized") that people merely discuss you
in a distracted way, often in your presence. At least that's how the
word is pronounced out here in the hinterlands. (Viz., "Yeah, but
that's a mute point.")
Wait a minute: "auditorily-challenged/impaired/differently-abled?"
Anyway, yours,
Viper
AreaWoman
On Fri, 21 Mar 1997 22:14:09 -0800, pn...@pacbell.net wrote:
>The other way to become "mute" is to be so severely trivialized (wait a
>minute, The Chairman says "marginalized") that people merely discuss you
>in a distracted way, often in your presence. At least that's how the
>word is pronounced out here in the hinterlands. (Viz., "Yeah, but
>that's a mute point.")
>
"moot" point in these here parts.
Jayne
Steve Schlather
Thomas Gremaud wrote:
>
> The old stand-by: someone cuts the person's tongue out. There was a
> mute character on the old Zorro television series (maybe it was
> originally a serial for movie theaters) whose tongue had been cut out to
> keep him from talking. A character in John Irving's "The World
> According to Garp" had her tongue cut out by an attacker.
what about a lesion on the vocal cords causing their removal?
also, deaf persons are often times mute...
or, what about a traumatic experience early in life...many children who
have witnessed sever violence at a young age are physcologically scarred
and will not speak...
Terri
Thomas Gremaud
Lane Browning
Why is this question still floating around? I answered it on
misc.writing some weeks back; I gave a whole list of "causes of
mutism" from the AMA encyclopedia--all authenticated, money-back
guaranteed, and foolproof! Sheesh!
The debate rages still. I have more to...er...say.
Nightsinger
On 18 Mar 1997, Amar wrote:
> No. I mean mute as in can't speak.
> >
> > Cancer of the vocal cords.
> >
> >
> Ya I thought of cancer and it's the only possibility I have right now.
>
They could have been born that way. Undeveloped tongue, loss of touge,
cancer of the tongue. Crush voicebox, loss of vocal cords, paralysis,
nerva damage, brain damge (will look up specifics if you want) damage to
speech center of brain, so on and so forth.
jen
Jerri LaPoint
Shakespeare did it in Titus Andronicus...these two brothers raped a girl,
and to keep her from telling whodunnit, they cut out her tongue and cut off
her hands...but she used the stubs to write it out, and her father served
the two brothers up to their mother in a pie.
This play is not produced on stage very often, if at all. Just goes to show
there's nothing new on heaven or earth, Horatio.