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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. 

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  • 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.

  • 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.

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