Related to AS?

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I'm not sure if it's just me or I have another kind of disorder but I have these "qualities" that may be considered by some as strange and I'm not sure whether or not, they would be considered a part of AS.

1. Whenever I speak verbally, I seem to (in this order) stumble over my sentence, stutter, repeat the sentence in a different way (Not always) and as a result, I start to get embarrassed and shut up.

2. I have like a TRILLION thoughts going through my head all at once. It's like I have a radio, a movie, an iPod and concert in my head. I don't know how to silence them and it's really giving me a headache.

Is this normal for an aspie?

The first part, yes, absolutely. I think Aspies actually have a microsecond cognitive delay between thought and action, whether the action is saying something, or hitting a baseball. It throws your timing off, which in conversation can be quite awkward.

The second one, I experience occasionally, though I'm usually too busy talking to myself to notice.

Phew! That's good to hear.

I forgot to put these two up too:

1. I always find myself apologizing. When I think I did or said something that might've offended someone, I end saying sorry.

2. I don't understand what people mean when they say "Oh, this person is so delightful!" or "This one guy is so charming." and when I look those words up in the dictionary, I still don't understand what they mean and they aren't even metaphors!

1. I mess up my speech

2. Don't frown upon it I see it as having the mind of and Energizer Bunny It keeps GOING AND GOING AND GOING AND GOING AND GOING AND GOING....

3. I always tend to find myself apologizing aswell.

4. Yes/No I don't understand your example but I've had a similar experience I mentioned the word Orgasm in class while a child was present and everyone stared at me and although I've looked it up all I know is it's something sex based which isn't a topic that interests me in the slightest.

Also I forgot to post with the energizer bunny comment I used it for writing research papers. NT)stress complaining papers are HARD!! ! As if a person is pacing back and forth in there mind. ME AS) Like 1,000 people working in a huge office ALL FOR ME idea department,writing,grammar etc.

1. I never used to apologize at all to people-intellectual awareness/instruction didn't do anything for my sense of propriety or politeness because I still didn't care-and other people's reasons didn't make sense to me. Have gradually learned to do this over the years, from practice: of understanding how I feel when hurt or offended, extrapolating/reversing that dynamic, and trying to anticipate & prevent causing bad feeling in other people.
2. Well, words are self-referential, and without an experience to connect to the word, it remains rather devoid of personal meaning. These words are labels for how the encountered person made the speaking person feel, the emotional reaction evoked. Any person isn't absolutely this or that ("nice" or "charismatic")-it's the interactive perception that makes it so.

I stumble over my sentences all the time it is really annoying it makes me feel really stupid during those kinds of situations. I know what you feel and I have AS so it might be you have it it might not.