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Advice on Aphasia like symptoms

NAS83366

Hi,

I was diagnosed with Autism at 5 years old.

I used to have limited vocabulary and I have a monotone voice, I find it hard to speak and be understood when I am trying to explain something. I find it hard to find the words as an Adult now and I will say sentences backwards, say the opposite thing or even say a word or words in the middle of my sentence that isn’t associated at all and it can get me into trouble at work.

 My mouth does not feel fully linked up to my mind, I do stumble over my words sometimes and it gets frustrating trying to talk sometimes to people who don’t know me. 

Does anyone have this same problem with their Autism and do you know any therapy that helps? It’s like my mind scrambles when I’m talking too sometimes. 

  • in reply to Martin

    I seem to go off track easily. Making conversation normally is not natural to me. It’s like a constant Freud slip or I may say knee instead of face etc 

    I can end up writing backwards also. My memory seems to remember things in reverse too so I don’t know if that has anything to do with it.

  • in reply to Mariusz

    I never used speak in my head but made myself start doing it when I was a teen, but it seems within my mind the words flow easily but when it gets to my mouth I start stumbling. 

    Yeah emotions make it worse for me too, sometimes I fight with my mouth or can’t remember the word I need to use to explain.

    My default way of thinking is the same as you, it was never naturally using words, it was more sounds, feelings, images etc and something else I can’t really explain but different. 

    it gets a bit embarrassing when I might say stuff that I meant to say differently when at work, or I totally confuse a client because I can’t explain something.

    I might say stuff like “I got it for the Dog” when I mean the person’s name, not dog. I’ve said something worse at work which was quite bad… I meant to say that the Doctors were talking in the clinical room, but instead what came was “the doctors are doing drugs in the room” and this isn’t in my mind when talking, I generally don’t think of my words or practice them when I speak and I may sound abrupt too when not meaning to.

  • in reply to Chloe Mod

    Thank you, I will have a look. I am going to try and speak to my doctor too.

    I am 35 years old and I find that most of the help and support is for children and younger people, I’ve been out of the Autism support loop for quite a lot of years now since school, but I will try and find something on the directory. 

  • Hello ,

    Thank you for sharing this with the community. I'm sorry to hear that you've been struggling with your speech/language. You may want to use our Autism Services Directory to search for services that could help you with your communication in your area that cater for people with an autism spectrum disorder. You can find the Directory here: https://www.autism.org.uk/directory 

    All the best,

    ChloeMod

  • Hi

    Good description

    I started having regular conversations in my head to practise, since then it's easier. Except when emotional. But then it's a lot of emotions if they can overflow alexithymic dam.

    I think it's spoken language, it's not made for us to communicate effectively. My default thinking is in pictures/diagrams

  • Not quite the same, but everyday words drop out of my vocabulary in mid sentence, all the time. It is like my 'ready-access' memory is quite small and there isn't enough room for all the words I use in everyday situations. The words are still there, in some deeper part of my memory, and come back to me after a few minutes, but by then I have had to mentally scramble around to find an alternative word to finish the sentence, or I have just stopped speaking.