Difficulty getting your words out?

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yes and people always think i have something bad to say or im hiding something when in all honesty my words wont come out an if i force them i will stutter:/ so i try to count a couple numbers from 1-5 then try an talk again, patience is key, ive noticed i try to rush and think what to say to people and it messes with my words or makes it harder to speak

My parents think I can control it, but I can't.

I don't decide not to, it's more that I'm not able to.

I wish they and others would understand.

Absolutely on both points.

YES YES YES!! !!

I tend to only talk when asked something directly. When I get very angry and frustrated, I tend to start stammering and then it starts getting hard to speak coherently.

Yes and yes!

When I am calm and with someone I know, I generally speak just fine for all intensive purposes, though I never really feel like I can communicate as well as I'd like to. It's draining to try and process all the information in a conversation fast enough to formulate acceptable responses, so when I appear to do it well, I am exhausted as a result.

When emotions come into play, or when I am speaking to people I don't know well or am not "synching" with in that moment (even if I know them), my voice may quaver, and my mind and my words start to shut down. This usually gets misinterpreted in a thousand ways, but never for what it is: a natural difficulty with social interaction (I'm not sure it can always be classified as social "anxiety").

No for the first question, yes for the second question.

Yes.

I can say things in my head very well. When it comes to finding and saying the right words to someone else.... It's challenging. Often I start a sentence but I cannot finish it and end up sounding like a fool. Similar on the phone, too. There's something about having to think of the right words ON THE SPOT that makes me go completely blank.

Similar difficulty with explaining emotions. When someone knows I'm upset and ask me what's wrong... It's impossible to find the words. I often have to tell them later on through an email. Typing something out is often waaaaaaaaay easier.

I too have a very difficult time interacting with people one on one, I stumble on my words and take way to long getting my points across to where it becomes awkward. When in a situation with 2 or more other individuals and I usually spend 99% of the time silent listening to what they say while constructing a brief sentence every now and then when the moment is right.

Have played World of Warcraft for a very long time and spent that time in 8 different guilds. Everytime I join a new one it's the same thing, I am dead silent in regards to anything that is not directly tied to what we're doing in the game or if someone is directly asking me a question. This stage usually takes around a month after that it is as if I am done registering a new social profile that fits the new environment.

After that I can partake in the current climate fairly well including joking around and making people laugh. But the second I leave teamspeak I feel no tie to the people I just had several hours of interaction with.

I actually started a new thread, but it sI pems my question has been answered. This is what I posted:

I've always been so much more eloquent in writing. I can speak, in fact sometimes I talk a lot. But, my spoken word is often broken and chaotic. Sometimes I can't grasp common words, or it comes out in gibberish.

Examples, one day I was asking my boss how large she wanted me to make a specific advertisement. Instead of asking that, what came out was "How much big you want?" Or once trying to talk about fire hydrants. I could see it in my head, but not the word. I referred to them as "the yellow or red things that dogs pee on."

It makes me crazy. Not to toot my own horn, but I'm freaking brilliant. Why does this happen? Is this common in ASD? I always apologize and explain that sometimes the English language fails me. I've been like this as long as I can remember. Is this the answer?