As a 40+ yr old, I gave up decades ago
Eventually it becomes other people’s problem, not yours.
huhh I don’t get it, I’m thinking of the context if i speak with people who speak to me with respect, i will really make effort to tell what i think, I believe this post can be interpreted also as a struggle for people who have dozens of thoughts and a brainstorm but they’re in a social situation which requires fluidity…?
Well said
When i get excited or angry my ability to articulate goes out the window. It usually comes out as mumbled gibberish
I think that’s cute (:
If i cant smoke and swear then I’m fucked. I only got my grade 10. I wont be able to properly defend myself
I feel that. I’ve also started blurting out similar sounding words to what I’m trying to say and it’s weird. Getting old sucks (and I was always pretty bad at talking)
If what you want to say is a 20mm cannon round then maybe dial it back a bit unless you’re trying to blow up family dinner
This is a very accurate illustration of ADHD.
“No you!” -me
I don’t get it. People can’t speak?
I understand not wanting to speak, but not the lack of ability.
Of course I can speak. I spend fifteen minutes practicing my order in my head first, of course. And then yeah, I probably get the words on the wrong order. But they’re all mostly there.
This morning I spent like 1 minute in a meeting wanting to say something scrolling in my head but the mouth was not cooperating at all with the words, so after a bunch of time and noises I just say “fuck the words” which actually worked and only then after pausing and waiting for the mouth to sync properly was I finally able to speak.
Fifteen? Is that it?
When people talk about inner monologues, mine is just literally scripting. The worst is after social interaction, where my brain has to ruminate over it and script for the next time. Stupid brain won’t stop, and all the way home, sometimes even sounds and gestures leak out as my brain frantically scripts and I hate it. Like, just shut up, brain!
I’m autistic,and yes, I sometimes can’t speak.
I try to say something, but instead it comes out in a way no one can understand.
For whatever it’s worth, whenever I am finally able to understand thoughts that come from a way different context than my own it is super satisfying. It’s like finding a hidden world that was underneath my feet all along.
“I have one main point I want to convey with five points of supporting evidence but actually each of those require arguing and some qualifications and point 4 is an essential part of the argument for point 1 and all of this reminds me of a funny conversation in a tv show that to me does a better job of explaining it but if you haven’t seen it what’s really important about that show is that it came out at the height of the War on Terror and -”
You probably stopped listening around the word “supporting” and I don’t blame you for that
The problem is thoughts are a web, and speech is a line. Someday I hope we will be able to brain dump through our neural implants.
Oh no… Imagine tiktok content in those times
You’re trying to say you truly don’t understand the concept of getting tongue tied?..
Aphasia sucks. There’s a dam between my brain and my mouth and sometimes the right word gets caught on it so I have to start throwing out cinnamon rolls
It’s common in neurodivergent people.
It was a big problem for me for a long time. The words are in my head, but my mouth couldn’t articulate the sounds and sometimes it was literal nonsense sounds that came out my mouth.
Weirdly enough, it turned out that I had a sensitivity to eggs that was making that (and my mental health) a lot worse.*
Even now, ten years on, when I can articulate a long sentence without tripping over my words, it still feels like a little victory.
This is a completely different thing from mutism btw.
*Unfortunately, the price of lower anxiety and better speech was losing a lot of my neutral/useful autistic traits as well.
I now get anxiety as I’m talking that the word I need two or three words from now just isnt there.
I’ve noticed over the last 6 years it’s becoming more difficult to order at drivethrus. not because I have changed, but because the kids working there have.
the kids working in that position these days were in or just entering Jr high when covid hit. they lost important years of social growth through almost their entire highschool career.
the future looks bleak.
I’m fairly certain I can rig up a makeshift barrel and a good enough firepin. Go for the old fuck it’s what’s the worst that can happen…
I read / heard somewhere, that if you can’t really put somethings into words, you don’t understand it as well as you think you do.
It’s bullshit. Some people have genuine issues speaking their thoughts from a variety of disabilities, and other people are just plain bad at explaining things
