Ever Blank in Conversation?

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Happens to me when I'm in big social situations (the occasional party that I manage to drag myself to) when I get tired. I just seem to lose words, and want to just watch everything float by from the sidelines (I rarely drink alcohol).

Constantly. I'm getting more and more phobic around engagements, because of it. I can never keep up, and don't want to be viewed as either crazy or stupid because I don't respond properly or in a timely manner.

It's a common occurrence.

I'll just be following along, difficult but possible, then all of a sudden I just blank and don't hear what they say, and of course, they finished with a question. "Er... could you please repeat that again? Sorry!" OR, I hear them, but I blank and can't find the words to respond.

Darn blanking! My mind doesn't seem to go like everyone else's, so I just step out of debates entirely, unless it's something I'm so sure of myself about, like music stuff.

Wow....this is amazing. I thought I was the only one who does this. Seems very common among ASD people.
I have this problem with forgeting what I am saying in mid sentance....totally forget what I am talking about like my brain is a sink of water containing all these thoughts and someone opens the drain and then they are gone down the drain. Usually this happens with recient emotional stress or physical stress like sleep devprivation, not eating enough, or getting too hot/cold. I have a sezure disorder, my doctor thinks it is a type of petite-mal sezure...another type is an abstence (sp) seizure...these are where you just blank-out with micro loss of concseinsess(sp).

How many of you who do this have a seizure disorder??? Some folks with autism are prone to seizures more than the average population.

No seizures here, but some blanking out....it's not random, it seems to be a thing I do when I'm consciously feeling overloaded. It's a hell of a strain for me to focus for long on stuff I have no particular interest in, and sometimes people just pile on the mental demands until I'm juggling too many balls, and then the inevitable happens, I drop the sodding lot.

Sometimes I wonder if it's a kind of fugue state - like the mind just can't handle the pressure so it shuts down to protect itself. Because occasionally during blankouts, I've noticed myself thinking "I can't cope, I can't remember anything, I can't think!" and I've said to myself "yes you can, just calm down" - and I've then been surprised at how much info I can salvage.

Yup, I have that. I feel like I've suddenly become nervous and the social part of my brain has just crapped out.