Who would have thought that talking in rhyme, or on the phone, used a different part of the brain than regular talking. Especially phone talking, I wouldn't have thought that would require any brain separation.

Scientists would have thought so.

what rhymes with Dilbert?

Why would scientists have thought that talking on the phone used a separate part of the brain than talking in person? I mean, aside from scientists who worked on this exact issue.

Also, I don't know what rhymes with Dilbert but I do know what rhymes with orange: doorhinge.

Filbert. As in hazelnut.

I am trying to get someone to let me write about this.

Write about it from the medical malpractice angle and about potential causes of action. Then go to the legal press.

Where's the malpractice?

It was sort of a joke. You can always make up a malpractice claim. If you want to be serious, though, read Scott Adams post on the origins of the illness/condition. He talks about telling doctors exactly what condition he correctly thought he had, but was pooh-poohed by his first several doctors. They diagnosed him as having, in order:
Acid Reflux Disease
Bronchitis
Social Anxiety Disorder
Polyps
Tumor

Sounds like an awful few months. Maybe he can turn that into a big lawsuit of some sort.

PS. My HTML looks sloppy, I wish CM had a preview button.

I'm trying to STOP writing about lawyers. Although it is quite lucrative.

I think people with obscure diseases like that commonly go through several rounds of diagnosis hell.

It seems like you should be able to find SOMEONE to let you write about. It should be interesting to the medical world, the business world, the nerd world, the comic book world, the internet world. I, of course, have NO idea how one goes about getting writing jobs, so I'll shut up from now on.

don't his methods strike you as very engineer-like? i thought it was very cute - in a bizarre, heartbreaking, glad-its-not-me sorta way.