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does anyone else have this prob when talking do u say words(in the middle of the sentence ) that have nothing to do with the subject your talking about

every now and then my brain will shift gears without me telling it to- this usually happens when i get distracted and then i will say something about the object which distracted me instead of my original subject. like if i am talking to my sister when one of her pesky cats starts rubbing against my leg [wants me to feed it] i will start talking about catfood instead of what i was discussing earlier. i hope this made sense to you.

Sometimes, yes. But I think it's because of my social anxiety. When I talk to people I get so scared & anxious that my brain doesn't work right & all kinds of odd things pop out of my mouth lol.

Yep, usually in a conversation with my wife where it's hard to get a word in edgewise.
So if I do say something I usually have to be quick about it and often the oddball word comes out.

Yes all the time some it’s the same when I write and read.
Only other people laugh as they think I deliberately changed the words.
E.g. I said “FROGS PORN” when it should be frogs spawn.
“SPACEBOOK” using 2 popular social sites into 1.
Most NT people see it as spoonerisms.

My husband does this all the time. He changes subjects right in the middle of a conversation, and then doesn't tell me the subject and I have NO idea what he is talking about. Sometimes it's like he's speaking a different language it can get so bad. The we decide to talk later because we're not communicating well right now.

More than once someone has asked me if I ever listen to myself when I talk.

There are a variety of sources for this type of presntation.

Some are speech disorders--that is to say impairments to the physical capacity of the person to create the correct speech sounds. In some cases it is linked to motor control of the speech organs, and is a manifestation of dyspraxia. This is most often manifested as difficulty in forming the correct word sounds. In other cases, it is rooted in a speech-sound disorder. This is the most common cause of substitutions like, "frog's porn" for, "frog spawn".

The presentation of malapropism, on the other hand, is a language impairment, which is cognitive, rather than neuro-physiological. These can include aphasia, paraphasia, and a variety of more specific manifestations that are linked to particular injuries or deficits.

The shifting-gears in mid-sentence phenomenon is different again, and more often link to attention deficits.

i do that once in a while but people often think that i say random words or things that have nothing to do with the conversations. however that's not true, they are not exactly random, just that i am the only one who knows the connection between those things that i say and the actual convo.

Yes, I do that. I also forget vital words needed to complete a sentence. When I try to remember it, I try to get the person I am talking to to help me by describing the word, then forgetting the words I need to describe the word. And, sometimes it takes many attempts to tell someone something because I keep getting distracted by what I'm saying and go off on a tangent on another subject and suddenly remember I still had to complete what I was saying originally. Not many people can allow for that, so in most situations, things I need to say get left for days.

Oh yeah, I'll say something like 'frogs porn' all the time. I usually say the opposite word like 'up' instead of 'down'. Then someone would be like 'no, it's down' and I'll get all defensive and say 'I know.' Then we'll have a big argument about it. It gets really annoying.

I have done this as well, but I have more trouble with getting out words at all, let alone the right ones. I will stop in the middle of the sentence then redirect and start another and keep doing it so it comes out like,
"First I stirred the pot but I....Well I have to go back and get the....then I put in a little...."

One time this poor lady I worked with was so confused because we were trying to figure out someone's pay problem and I was going trough all the possible causes and would just leave the last parts of the sentences off. She wanted to strangle me! It was like I was thinking faster than my mouth could keep up.

Yeah that happens to me all the time. Sometimes, I get so frustrated that I just stop and not speak. But sometimes I just have to ignore it and keep trying to make my point get across.

Last night out at dinner, I commented on something, and my sister said, "That didn't make any sense. Not one WORD of it made sense. I don't even know if you changed the subject or were talking about what we were talking about." Oops. That happens to me a lot. I think I get confused about background information... what background information I have vs. what background information everyone else has, and where I need to fill in the blanks for them.

I learned the repetition and recombining of speech sounds before I learned what words were for. The result us that speech developed for me not as "I will say what I am thinking" but "I will say something that at least sounds plausible in reaction to whatever was said, and/or I will get everything I am going to say by mentally cutting and pasting from the words of others whether spoken or written." The result is that by the time I knew what some words meant and what wordsw ere for, my brain had already created a thing I called the "Translator" which came up with words independently of my thoughts. So when I tried to say what I meant, I had to wrest control away from the Translator. Which almost never worked even when I could speak.

Writing started out similar to speech but for some reason I had more control over it than the Translator did. So that combined with a loss of the ability to speak most of the time meant that I now use writing for everything. But every now and then, especially when stressed or tired, the Translator still slips some words in... especially since I rely on something very like the Translator to supply me with words in the first place.

ha! yep