MIXING UP WORDS/JUMBLED SPEECH Anxiety/Social Anxiety?

I’m autistic and I do this a lot… it’s frustrating cuz in my mind it makes sense but my brain and tongue are completely out of synch lol

yes this ! I’ve been thinking I might be on the spectrum for a few years now. Everything sounds good in my head & like you said it comes out different. I find myself beating myself up about it and it makes me feel terrible about myself. I struggle really hard in relationships, I feel like I have to get everything out, I’m too honest & it comes across as rude, I have no friends because I’m awkward and I have heard people say I’m really nice but I’m weird. I can’t figure out if I just have social anxiety/ptsd or if I’m on the spectrum sometimes I’m good and can live my life as normal & then sometimes I can be like this when things are going wrong in my life. But I always feel like I’m masking! How’d you find & what steps did you take?

I’m the same way sometimes to avoid all of that i just stay to myself cause it seems like no matter how much i try to meet new ppl that anxiety kicks in badddd 😩

Have a video diary, like a journal but instead of writing it you talk to it. Turn on your video, face the camera to you selfie style and every night talk about your day, where went who you seen what you did how you feel, and just talk to yourself. Make it last 5mins each video. You’ll start getting more and more confident and it’ll slowly teach you to think of the next line while you’re speaking one line. Also having someone you FaceTime a lot, helps too. If you can find someone, do both, and your speaking should improve and you won’t have much anxiety when answering people/in a convo. I’m on a FT call nearly every day my sisters ring me as a group and we chat as a group.

I’ve been having this issue lately due to heavy brain fog 😶‍🌫️. It’s super embarrassing I’ve been thinking about going to the doctor for it.

Reading poems out-loud really helped me, I don’t do it consistently anymore, but it helps! Also keep in mind no one is going to remember you messed up a week from today

I love this idea !!

I love this idea too , I will try this as well (:

I'm adhd autistic and been struggling for years with this I got to the point now we're my partner calls it a hannerisum and we laugh about it

lmaooooooo you just described me, It make perfect sense in my brain but if I try verbalise it, I end up sounding a lil stupid or I can’t explain it properly 😂 but I’m much better at writing/typing it down I guess because it gives me more time

I suffer from chronic daily headaches, persistent migraines and anxiety. When all 3 are going at once, I struggle to remember anything including words and what is in my head and I hear myself saying, is not what I am actually saying 🤣

I am about to start full time job for a company. I have done a small amount of babysitting for the owner, the dad only seems to talk to me when I am at my worst so I can’t fathom why he agreed to give me a full time role 🤣🤣🤣 I always walk away feeling stupid when I interact with him 😓😱

genius!

I tend to just laugh it off so I feel a little less embarrassed. 🙈

I think it sometimes has to do with the fact that I rarely speak out loud all day and then during get togethers or holidays when more ppl are around I can’t remember how to make a sentence! 😅

Yes that too lol

yessss!!! Give me time to think first and send a text is so much better cuz I can reread it and edit it before I send! Having to have verbal conversations about serious topics is a nightmare! lol

omg just got done reading that page , almost all of those things resonate w/ me !

I mean welcome to the community if you think you are autistic… self diagnosis valid! I learned a lot from listening to #actuallyautistic on TikTok and researched so much about it and took the Raads test on embrace-autism.com lol… just trust yourself… you know you better than any doctor ever could so I always recommend doing all the research first so that if you do want to get a diagnosis (granted in the states with RFK rn I don’t even wanna diagnose my kids if he still plans on doing those camps) the doctors can’t medically gaslight you and just put a bunch of unnecessary labels on you instead of autism…

Is being uncomfortable giving or receiving affection another sign?

I do this also.

I’ve always wondered this too but prob could stem from other things as well

Yes me I'm audhd non verbal till 4. I used to have a lisp and stutter. When I'm anxious I start rambling and my words get mixed up. I learnt to mask my stutter and lisp because of bully's. Or sometimes when I'm relaxed and talking to my partner I do it. Your not alone