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2:19am October 19, 2013

warlocksexalways:

Why do I sometimes say things other than what I’m trying to say? It seems like I start to speak and then I get derailed by my own brain. Like my brain shoves things into a shape preemptively.

That’s the vast majority of my speech problems in a nutshell.  I can make word sounds. I can only in the rarest of occasions, usually with brain-splitting effort, make them mean what I am thinking.  Like there was a couple days last year, and then a few sentences a few times years before that, and that’s it, for the last… however long it’s been since I talked regularly.  And even back then my speech (and writing, often) was less communicative than it looked.

I have the same problem in writing but much less so.  It often feels like I have to fight the wrong-words-thing out of the way, as well as coming up with the right-words-thing at the exact same time, and it’s exhausting in writing but virtually impossible in speech.

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  1. lisaquestions reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    Yeah, I have similar issues, to a lesser degree. I especially find that when someone says something unexpected to me I...
  2. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton and added:
    That’s the vast majority of my speech problems in a nutshell. I can make word sounds. I can only in the rarest of...
  3. slashmarks said: I don’t know why but I know what you mean and I do that too. Like I made things sound different than they are because it fits into a neater/more recognizable shape?
  4. fullyarticulatedgoldskeleton posted this