Is forgetting words while typing a text autism related?

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I seen many aspies suffer from this a lot while most NTs stay clear from this.

It has something to do with typing too fast and losing focus too often.

Omg that is so me... I will be typing at like a billion words per minute and then I get distracted... and the next thing I know I've got the most random thing that I have ever typed.

I have this and also I usually sometimes add in extra random words that don't need to be there. I do type really fast and my mind races when I'm thinking but I also look at the keyboard when I'm typing. I wonder if that has to do with anything.

Sounds like writer's block. No I don't think it is something to associate within the Austistic spectrum as many friends I know not within it suffer from the same thing.

I'm always forgetting words, usually descriptive words that I know very well, yet it's almost as if my brain is trying to sabotage me since when I forget them, they're right there, I can almost grab them but it's like there's a block of wall in the way.
I wouldn't consider it writers block, since writers block usually indicates a lack of motivation/ imagination when writing something in particular.
This is always forgetfulness, yet I don't feel I've actually forgotten the word, I just can't remember what it looks like in my head.

I do this more often when I am going through a time of severe anxiety or depression, like I have been for the past few years.

I heard that is part of ADHD too but I'm not sure I guess it could be related to both ADHD and aspergers, I don't know I have both.

I miss words out sometimes...then I read back over the message and fix it.

I get numbers the wrong way around more often.

Yes, i think faster than i can type so i tend to skip over words, so i have to reread it before i can submit it to see that gaps i have to fill in.

Very much here.

No, it has nothing to do with autism.

*sigh*

Yeah, I think so. I think it has to do with the mind getting ahead of the typing speed and having difficulty getting back on track.

That makes sense......your mind and your fingers just don't coordinate their activities.......it could have to do with motor planning and timing and such.


I do have this difficulty..............it takes me an incredibly long time to type up notes. On a different (though maybe related note) in general I'm just a slow typist and a sloppy typist.......my fingers slip on the keys a lot and I make a lot of typos.........I had typing lessons in school and everything (when I was a kid they gave typing lessons in middle school) but I was just always bad at it.

I know except what the problem is: The brain thinks faster than the words are typed, you type what you thinking, so you skip words as your hands were too slow to keep up with the thought process, in order to correctly type you need to think the same thing over and over again until your hand catches up and that's annoying and by the time you catch up with your brain you may have forgotten the original phrasing of the sentence or what you have already wrote, causing blah.