I Can't Stop My Stream-of-Consciousness

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I can usually focus on conversations, especially one on one conversations. However, my thought process does tend to be very stream-of-consciousness, which would render it very convoluted and incoherent to anyone who doesn't live inside my head. The tricky part is converting my jumbled thoughts into a format that can be understood by others. I often fail at doing this effectively. It's not unusual for me to be talking, or writing to someone, only to realize that the other party partially or completely missed the point I was trying to communicate. That's one of the reasons I often don't like looking at faces when I'm talking to people. I just hate to see the narrowed eyes and furrowed brow meaning, "I don't know what the heck you're trying to say." That look can really derail me from my train of thought. Sometimes, I think I need an interpreter.