Does anybody's brain glitch/freeze/pause sometimes?

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Something that locks my brain up is certain kinds of loud noises. When I get caught under the loudspeaker at department stores, it can effectively shut off my brain until it stops. I remember one time two different people kept repeating the same announcement over and over again. I checked out almost completely after the third or fourth iteration and couldn't do anything - including moving or speaking - until they finally stopped. Once it was over I had to work out why I was in that part of the store and what I wanted to get. Fortunately, the product was directly in front of me.

Sometimes my brain gets locked up processing sensory input. This is usually due to noises but can be caused by lights, smells, and touch too. It contributes to many of my shutdowns.

I get them also.Example,let's say were driving and you ask me "turn left or right?",for some reason this confuses my brain and I know the way to go but can't say it,so I point.After ten secs or so I can pull the word up.

Absolutely, all the time, and it's definitely a symptom of autism. I also think of it as a "brain crash".

It happens to me:

-When I am in an environment with too much going on (noise/bustle)
-When I am concentrating on something and someone or something interrupts me
-When I get overwhelmed by a task with multiple steps or with several things to do at once

I think the computer analogy is a great one - brains are like computers in a lot of ways. For the computer-literate among you, I think of it as neurotypical people having a brain with a multi-core processor which is great at or at least capable of doing or processing multiple things at the same time. Autistic people have a single-core processor which is great at running a single task with complete focus, but ask it to do something else at the same time and it will suddenly get very slow, freeze, or crash.

I seem to spend a lot of time staring stupidly at people while I process what they said because they said it while my brain was doing something else. I have developed selective bad hearing as a coping mechanism - I pretend I didn't hear what they said so they repeat it, which gives me time to process it.

Yes, it happens quite often to me, usually during lessons, when I'm in a street, or in an hall, or in a place where there are many noises. My brain stops thinking, and I can do nothing but stay there, looking at a certain point without really seeing it. It usually leasts for a few minutes.

The same thing happens to me. If I'm suddenly asked a blindsided question, I'll have to pause and think it through for a few seconds. Sometimes, an NT will break away and go ask someone else because I took too long. I've always wondered if for people like us, the healthier we eat the better our brains perform? I've always wondered if certain junk foods play a role in bogging down our already struggling minds even more. I'm not saying not to enjoy whatever you want to eat, maybe just once in a while.

OMG YES all the time especially in situations where multiple people are asking me questions all at the same time!

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No.

Over about the past month or so I've noticed my speech has become more halting and difficult: I know what I want to say in my head, but I can't remember the word I'm trying to use or how to explain my thoughts in a coherent manner, I don't know what caused it, I've never had this problem before.

I call it "zoning out" where I have reached the capacity of my concentration. Usually it happens when someone is talking to me while I'm doing something, or if I'm not doing anything but more than one person is talking to me.

Often times I'm having a conversation with my Mum, she'll be talking and then suddenly starts laughing at me because I'm just staring at her with a blank expression and my mouth gaping open.

When people speak to me. Ever since my second surgery and the switch to Sandoz Adderall(everybody's favorite, but if I have to experience the dreaded l-amphetamine then make it it feel like a shot of God's own useless isomer, not a useless isomer that serves no purpose for myself) I .... have trouble concentrating, and my pain is managed to a tolerated level, and ... I'm on a lot of controlled substances, and timing is not optimized, nor are the medications, so they happen often for a variety of reasons.

I am in the midst of going into an apathetic fog ... So when optimized medicinally, when an emotion is expressed in thevisage of a personal affront by.clueless trash (misogynistic garbage followed by a strange string of increasingly violent petty garbled)', and people I feel strongly about and am terrified they will stop speaking to me and it's happening right now, I should not have pressed a go beyond a simple yes or no. !!I'm sorry