“When Part of Your Brain Dies, It’s Dead Forever”- Following Her Complicated Birth, Ronda Rousey Couldn’t Speak an Intelligible Word for 3 Years

Ronda Rousey is a household name in the world of combat. The first-ever American female to win an Olympic Medal in Judo is also the UFC’s first-ever Female World Champion. In her book, ‘My Fight/Your Fight’, Rousey has written how she had actually fought her way into the world. ‘The baddest woman on the planet’ was born in an almost-dead condition, but she eventually fought her way back to life.

Rousey had her mother’s umbilical cord wrapped around her neck right at the time of her birth, which prevented her breathing and almost killed her. The fighter in the newborn Rousey held onto that severe condition for about a minute before revival. ‘Rowdy’ also stated in her book how this accident damaged her cognitive speaking ability right from birth. She narrated how her mother took her to various therapists in order to rectify her speech problems. But despite all this, Rousey wasn’t able to speak intelligibly even after completing 3 years of her birth.

The brain of the baby Ronda Rousey fought to get her to speak

Rousey revealed how it was her fighting baby brain that rewired itself to gift her with speaking abilities. She also iterated that it was nearly impossible for a general person to regain normal speaking capability if they go through a similar debacle as she had experienced.

‘The Arm Collector’ wrote, “When part of your brain dies, it’s dead forever. (OK, so that’s pretty much the definiton of dead). However, babies are pretty amazing. Babies are super-resilient. Sometimes, baby brains can rewire themselves so that they can still work.”

She also stated how she had gotten her speaking ability back, “My developing brain just rewired itself.” She mentioned some references to MRI scans of her brain and mentioned, “If you took one of those multicolored cerebral activity scans. You’ll see the part that controls my speech is located on a different part of the brain than it is for most people”.

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‘Rowdy’ implied that her brain had rewired itself and shifted her speech control mechanism to a different part. It finally gifted her with the precious quality of speaking.

Ronda Rousey’s brain took time to rewire which caused her parent to worry

‘Rowdy’ also wrote in her book about how her brain took time to rewire itself. She stated, “But until my brain got itself rewired. It was like I couldn’t connect the words in my head to my mouth”.

The period of this ‘rewiring’ could also be traced from her statements. She mentioned that her mother took her to various pediatricians for almost 3 years due to her unintelligible speech. But fans know Rousey as a smooth-talking and sometimes even trash-talking individual.

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