Do you ever experience slurred speech?

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Like when you're really tired or exhausted mentally or physically. Slurred speech, something about the muscles of the mouth and maybe coordonation of all of them along with dry tongue...to make speech harder physically.

Similar to speaking after you're out on a cold winter day in freezing temperatures, and when you go into a warm room, your mouth/cheeck/face muscles are a bit slow...like slow motion

more like trying to say 3 things at the same time. Most of the slurring is me trying to talk around my foot...

I mumble more.

I swap bits of speech around when I'm tired or stressed, both within words and mixing up word order, and sometimes I feel like my mouth is numb and not responding quick enough to my trying to drive it - now days I just give up mid-sentence when it gets like that, make some silly noises to 'reboot' and start over, and my friends are used to this.

I tend to lose track of what I want to say mid sentence and end up stuttering, mumbling or slurring, especially when I'm stressed (this usually happens when I am say telling a joke or trying to remember something). Other times my mind is racing faster than my mouth can keep up and I end up doing the same thing I guess, almost choking on the words, which does feel like my mouth is numb or something. In both cases it helps if I take a deep breath, organize what I'm going to say, and continue from where I left off. My friends have pretty much adjusted to it, at least they wait patiently while I take that breath and organize.

My little brother with Asperger's has a similar problem too.

I am often mute, as many here do know. At times, I lose my speech. My thought is just congruent to verbal, specifically NT thought. Qualitatively. I am rendered mute. I am unsure - should I fight this, or just write/draw, like I do? I think the latter.

At times. I even say the wrong word. It depends who I'm speaking to though. With people I'm comfortable around, there's nothing wrong in my speech. When it's strangers or people I don't know quite well, I'm pretty spastic.

Sometimes. I learnt to pace myself, and without such I'm sure I'd stumble far more than I do. Not that I talk to anyone other than my mother in noticeable amounts, but I'd slur and stutter if I didn't pace myself, even with her.

yes.

Yeah, it happens. I also end up mixing the grammar and structure of the sentences and it just sounds like totally slurred and incomprehensible.

I mumble instead.

Strange you should mention this. I saw a doctor about my speech slurring a few years ago, he could not give me a specific cause - however this was before I realised that I'm likely to have Asperger's. I wonder if there is a link between slurring of speech and Aspergers?
Nobody has ever said that they can tell my speech is slurred, it seems more noticeable to me when it happens. It is a bit like I'm drunk or had mouth numbing injections at the dentist. My mouth and tongue don't seem to do exactly what they are supposed to, and act a bit clumsy.

I have problems with slurred speech when I'm excited (eg. when talking about cars).