Does Anyone Struggle with Words?

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I struggle with word retrieval. Stress doesn’t help and makes it worse. I had a job coaching which I retired from, I was often mixing my words up and would often say the wrong word for different parts of the body, I.e call an arm a leg lol It’s really inconsistent some days I can’t get my words out sometimes stutter too, then today as an example it was ok and my speech was quite fluid on the phone. I wish it was more consistent. It can be really frustrating.

Yep. That was a HUGE struggle for me. Putting words in order, word retrieval getting them out into coherent setences both verbal and written. The most difficult thing for me was when I had to try to explain a concept verbally back in school. I'd get all jumbled up and pause.

Is here someone who had this problems and got better or solved them? Is it possible? What do for improve?

Maybe talk with people, but it is hard when most people have no patience to listen me.

Difficulties with speech & language may result from 'Receptive Aphasia' - which may be a trait of the Autism Spectrum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receptive_aphasia

Often by the time I think of an appropriate contribution to a conversation among other people, the conversation has moved on without me. People generally don't pause long enough for me anyway.

Yes and no.I think I am a good speaker, though of course, there's a slight chance I'm biased. Trouble is, I switch between verbal and visual thinking all the time (neither is really dominant), so it leads to funny things. For example, I'll be talking, and I'll plan to say the word boat (verbally), but a hundred milliseconds later, I'm in visual mode, envisioning a boat, and I'll say ship instead. This happens when writing too, where it can lead to words such as "boip" (started out as boat, but ended as ship). This switching between visual and verbal mode can occur incredibly quickly. As for my handwriting... let's not go there, OK? It'd leave you embarrassed. Even more embarrassing might be to learn that I still can't remember the difference between the b and the p (rarely 3's and E's) all the time, and that once I misspell a word wrong once, it's really difficult to unlearn that and learn how it's supposed to be spelled.

Same thing (difficulty unlearning misreadings) happens when reading. I read the name "Bergersen" as "Bergensen" for, I don't know, four years before I finally figured out I was misreading it. Losing place when reading long paragraphs is also annoying (please don't write super long paragraphs people! I can't read them).

But the most frustrating language isn't English, French or German. It's ... math language, especially function signs. If I was paid a loonie every time that I confused the +/- signs, I'd be able to retire tomorrow if I so desired. If you add all transcription errors and punching the wrong numbers into the calculator to that, I'd likely be a millionaire. Talk about frustrating! Knowing how to do math, but being stumped by the language.

I have a difficult time with words retrieval always because my mind has the picture, then I realized my hands are trying to act it out. Words come last. It is worse with stress or emotion, but it is always. I also think it's gotten worse as I've gotten older. My toddler has become phenomenal at filling in the words for me.

The majority of the time, I find words easy to use. My pronunciation and word retrieval can get mixed up or paused because of my dyspraxia. I used to like writing (unless it was an essay) and keep a blog.

OP i can relate with you similarly. All my life with ASD I have poor social skills and poor communication

Glflegolas, Yes the two words merged together! I do that sometimes when speaking, but for me it is like i change my mind halfway through the word. Sometimes it's amusing, but only because it mostly happens when i am speaking to my cats and not puttin much care into my words.

With writing, I occasionally skip over key letters and have to squeeze them in. That's perhaps from something else and is much more annoying for me.

Sometimes it's hard for me to make chit-chat with people I don't know very well. Or even if I do know them it's hard for me to get a word in edgewise if they form a clique. Sometimes people talk about subjects that don't interest me. I just let them talk but I don't respond much.

I also often rely on familiar scripts.

But what I really struggle with is other people's words when they don't say what they mean or mean what they say.

I have the opposite problem, though it still affects some communication difficulties. When I become emotional - especially anxious or excited - I become twice as pedantic. It feels like stimming, in a way, to let it loose like that, and I wish it was something I could allow all the time. But it's bad enough that people can't understand me. I've been given some queer looks over the years, and by now I know that means I should reign myself in and reword what I just said in simpler terms. Luckily, when it's at its strongest, people just assume that I'm being sarcastic. I also have an over-articulation problem, which my family calls my "British accent." It's embarrassing, as I slip in and out of it during conversations, and I can't control it in the least. I can still communicate most of the time, I just come off as someone who truly is from another planet, complete with its own syntax and accent.