Ever have this happen to you?

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You ever been in a conversation and been talking about one thing, and you'll think about it and get lost in your thoughts for a moment, and then say something that seems to be totally unrelated and random(even though there's a perfectly valid connection to it in your head)? A perfect example is... I was watching the Family Guy yesterday and Lois says to Peter "You should be a producer" then he goes off into this imaginary scenario in his head of what being a producer would be like. The next thing he says is "I love Mexicans! Ill do it!". He didn't even think twice about the fact that Lois would have no idea wtf he was talking about. I do this sort of thing all the time. And I was just curious if this was normal for people with AS? It makes it hard to have long conversations with people because I often cause the other person to be confused.

yep happens to me all the time

Happens to me, too. And, boy, do people ever get irritated about it!

I think the NTs suffer more from these things than they like to make out. It's just our extreme internal differences that have us questioning our every quirk while they go on chuckling at their little mistakes and silly moments. It's like we don't have permission to just be a little silly from time to time. It always lands as a blow, another time people thought we were weird.

But for my part, my problem is usually talking over people, often to keep from forgetting what I have to say before it's said, or because I pause slightly and they try to chime in. I do go on, I know that, so that it can be hard to get a word in, but I also don't mean to talk over them. Sometimes it really does seem like everyone else gets to make mistakes once in a while without serious repercussions and I make nothing but mistakes and make everyone avoid me.

All the time. People have compared me to Family Guy humor. I'd like to think that I'm more like J.D from Scrubs, only he keeps those thoughts to himself whereas I say them out loud.

I do it all the time. My brother has been known to patiently remind me that nobody else can see what's in my head, and I need to make the connection aloud.

I do that sometimes, when talking to friends on AIM, and they don't mind.

Yeah that happens to me too, sometimes i
also stop in the middle of a sentence or
close to end, for some reason i just think
out the rest and fail to mention it to those
who listen and when they say "...yes,
and..? you were saying something..?" i`m
allready way passed that in my head and
thinking about something else - so then i
say "what..?" because for a second i`m not
sure what they are talking about and it just
gets really messy

""I was watching the Family Guy yesterday and Lois says to Peter "You should be a producer" then he goes off into this imaginary scenario in his head of what being a producer would be like. The next thing he says is "I love Mexicans!""

makes sense to me, i remember that clip

Yes, b/f does that.

I do something similar, i'll be talking and all of a sudden i'll stop and mumble something (usually inaudible to the other person) that I remember I had to do that day or just something I remembered in general but, I won't hear myself or notice that I am doing it and the continue the conversation like nothing happened.

I wind up thinking some crazy stuff off on a disconnected tangent, but not get around to saying it, rather, start explaining the crazy thing I didn't get around to saying. Then say it.

Order shmorder...

i used to do it a lot but once i became aware of it i worked to try to stop this and now i don't do it, or at least i don't do it often

Yup, yup & yup. And then have one of those "Oh crap did I just say that out loud?" moments.

Yup, I also loose track of what I was saying very often, too.