Is not remembering names for things a symptom.

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Occasionally I'll have trouble remembering the name for an item or place. The worst one was an orange, I could remember what it looked like, texture and even the colour just not what it was called and today I forgot the name of a city near where I grew up (even though I support there football club) that I applied for a job in.

Meh that happens, just blank moments

Yeah, sometimes I forget the name of people who I see all the time such as my teachers. It is really awkward.

I go blank on words all the time, usually mid conversation. I have to describe what I am talking about until someone fills in the word for me or it pops in my head, so annoying!

I also am horrible with names, I recognize faces, and sometimes where I know them from, but quite often I am like, "where do I know you from?" I am sure people find it quite insulting, so I usually just smile and wave.

"Just smile and wave, boys. Just smile and wave."

Yeah, that happens to me a lot. It's like, the words are buried inside a dark room filled with junk (my brain) and I have to stumble around around until I find them. It gets really bad when I call someone and hear their answering machine (how I hate those things) and when I have to leave a message I get really tongue-tied and stumble over my words. One time I said, "please give me a message when you get this call". Actually that was pretty funny. But when I do it around my mother she always finishes my sentences for me. I heard you're not supposed to do that but I really don't mind. I guess. Sometimes however, it gets very frustrating when I want to tell how I feel about something but can't think of the right words to put to my thoughts, almost like writer's block, and it isn't until I hear someone else say it, usually on a TV show or in a book that I know how.

I've heard that can be a side effect of taking some kinds of SSRIs, so if you are taking Zoloft or Prozac or whatever, that might have something to do with it.

That happens to me sometimes, too. Like, when you need to say a word and it's on the tip of your tongue but you can't recall it. Often I'll get 'stuck' on a similar sounding word when trying to remember it, and I'll end up using some kind of synonym or just describing it. I think some degree of this is normal-ish. If it's really bad it could be Anomic aphasia

Usually I have trouble recalling someone's name upon just meeting them and if I am around them often then I have no trouble recalling their name.

Sometimes I may have trouble recalling the name of something and get frustrated as it often feels like the name of it is on the tip of my tongue.

It is not noticable to other people anymore, but I took speech class for many years because of that language disorder.

It happens to everyone occasionally, and to others more often. It runs in my family--all of us, some worse than others. My father writes lists before hand to remember what to do. My mother, before she passed away, used to write lists afterwards to remember what she had already done. I and all 3 of my sibs tend to be forgetful. I used to think I was the worst, but then found out that my older brother is the worst. He will put food in the microwave, turn it on, and then go out and drive away on an errand. He will take something out of the fridge and forget to put it back when he's done with it, so it sits on the counter for hours and then needs to be thrown out. He forgets important stuff at work. I won't tell of his biggest work boner. If it ever got back to him, he would be furious. He is very, very absent minded.

This happens to me sometimes. I just can't think of the name of some everyday things.

That's me as well, although it's also often adjectives. I just know there is a perfect word, but I cannot think of it.

Matching names to faces is also brutal.

Not really a symptom of Autism, most people do that when either stressed or anxious, or are getting old, or it could sometimes just be a personality trait found in some people.

Once again glad it's just not me. Mom won't ever let me forget that I couldn't remember the name of a 'round fruit with a leathery skin and sort of an orange colour'.

I would think that most people haven't done it constantly, when feeling perfectly fine, since they learned to talk.