Not Speaking Clearly

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I've been noticing, especially lately, when talking to people (other than the ones I'm around constantly) my speech becomes slurred, jumbled - hard to decipher.

I've always done this here and there, but I feel that it's gotten worse in the past few months. Could there be a reason for this?

It's not due to nervousness... I can be completely at ease and around people I know well.

This had been a life long problem for me, that I would speak low and mumble and not look people in the eye. Strangely enough when I was put on antidepressants as an adult I found myself projecting my voice more and speaking more clearly. I'm not sure it wasn't because I needed to communicate but being more direct and forceful brought me more attention from the other person and it felt creepy like the looking in the eye thing. I think the meds helped me with that. My son, who is diagnosed with Asperger's, is the same way I was.

Same here. I have to put in a lot of conscious effort to get rid of that trait, and it returns if I'm nervous or hyperactive.

Sometimes I CAN'T speak clearly. I'm trying to tell someone something, but I'm thinking in abstract patterns, and can't switch thought patterns fast enough to convert to words without a delay.

My thoughts get completely jumbled any time I try to speak and I just stammer. Alcohol helps though, I can speak eloquently for a long time without stopping.

mecanicalgirl39- That makes sense I never thought of it that way. What it feels like is your mouth wants to say something different from your brain.

It does, doesn't it. I had the unfortunate opportunity to listen to myself on a digital recording the other day - I didn't know the recorder wasn't switched off (and neither did the boss) so a whole argument was taped without either of us knowing it . During the discussion live, I was very annoyed that I was being attacked for the way I worked, considering that he has no clue of what goes on out in the front. Listening to the recording in the course of transcribing something else, I cringed, because I heard just how badly I was speaking, and it was less that I was being attacked and more that there was a frustration level of the communication not getting through. I thought I had defended myself well until then

I always slur my words and stutter, and I'm also a fast speaker which doesn't help. And when I hear recording of my voice I sound drunk or stoned I'm that bad. It's worse when I'm excited, mad, or if I have alot to say, because I just shoot all my words out in one go while tripping over my words and I either have to stop or I end up making a daft noise like "blablabla" and then laugh nervously and I often have to start it all again and try to speak slower than what feels natural so they can tell what I'm saying. I can be a rubbish speaker at times.

My speech is actually very articulate. However, I do have days where my words will sound jumbled or slurred for no reason. I think it's just a normal thing that everyone goes through.

I tend to stutter and mumble when talking to people I don't know. Sometimes I even do that to people I do know, but I just don't know as well as other people.

Precisely as you say, me too.

I used to talk fast, and I'd slur some letter/combination of. My dad had complained only about my talking too fast. I made a conscious effort to stop doing either, and it went away pretty quick. Though, I still sometimes talk far too fast, but it has been extremely reduced.

I had a period when I seemed to lose control (not that I have much) of speech and was babbling and mumbling a lot. I also 'threw' my voice at that time without knowing how it happened. It passed.

when im more verbal my speech is like that as well, now with me, it can mean my thoughts are coming way too fast like RTS(rapid thought syndrom), or it can mean my mind is wandering without thinking, basically too much stimuli like lights, noise, touching, smell, taste something maybe obstucting my verbalness someway. Maybe thats the same with you, maybe your sensory is getting more severe, that can happen with season change, with allergies, happen with anxiety that you may not know about, happen with change in environment, happen with change in schedule, happen with so much. Either way your not alone hehe.

Did it pass on its own, or did you do something to make it stop?



I HATE when I'm upset, and trying to get a point across or express myself to someone, and my bad speech prevents it, or takes away the effect of what I'm trying to put across.

I was having my midlife crisis at the time and was ultra stressed, so I think it passed on it's own. I am a mimic though, that's my 'savant' skill so I think I was possibly developing more mimicry skills, they just come by themselves.

I've always had the problems of speaking rather fast and not showing much intonation with my voice, although I can express more emotion in my voice now, I still speak rather fast and people often find it hard to understand me. I can't look people in the eye when speaking as well (which I know is a problem for LOTS of aspies).