Taking a long time to recognize a word?

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Hello there. In the past, it seems like I've always had a problem with recalling the semantically "correct" word or phrase in a timely manner (I assume it's a part of expressive language deficits), but now I've been noticing that I seem to have an increasingly frequent situation where I see a written word and it seems unrecognizable, then after 2-3 seconds, it seems to be recognizable but I don't recall the meaning(They're relatively common words -- the most recent problem words have been "kimono" and "desolation"), but then 5-10 seconds later, the meaning seems to pop up as if by surprise. Does this happen to anyone else and/or is a part of autism and/or is this a problem in other mental disorders (Like schizophrenia)? I've been kind of suspecting I'm going kind of "psycho" because what I remember as being "normal reactions" and "normal gut feelings" for me in certain social situations doesn't seem to happen anymore, and it seems people seem to be unusually efficient as identifying me as "the crazy guy" from my behavior alone (Or so it would seem; Well, maybe not "the crazy guy", but definitely at least the "avoidable guy"), and I'm wondering if this might be a part of whatever that psychotic process is.

(I could be entirely wrong about the "crazy" and "psychotic" thing, and maybe my change in "normal reactions and gut-feelings" could be because I'm now unduly confident and self-assured? However, I still seem to be seemingly unusually emotionally unaffected by the emotions of those nearby, including those I'm supposed to be "close" to.)

It sounds like thought blocking or something like that. It's not indicative of psychosis the way delusions and hallucinations are.

I've had some things like that happen before.
Very rarely, I'll read a word, and I decipher the letters and might even say the word, but it is not immediately connected to any meaning or image in my mind. It literally is (for the moment) just empty words....
More often, I will see a word and it will not seem like it's right. I know what it means, it just doesn't look or sound the way it's supposed to, even though I can see right in front of me that it is correct.

That sometimes happens to me, but with spoken words rather than written. I will hear what someone is saying, but it will take a few seconds for me to comprehend the meaning.

I'm starting to recognize when this happens more and more, so I'll pause and let it process rather than immediately asking the person to repeat himself/herself.

It happens to me, but in spoken words only. Sometimes words, sometimes complete sentences have this effect. Just yesterday, I had to have repeated a word, because it was slightly differently pronounced to what I expected. I frequently have the effect on others that I slow minded or don't pay attention the way I should.