Saying things the wrong way

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Usually I get everything upside down!

it's a big yeh from me on that...

Three actual recent examples of me saying something the in a horribly, very wrong way. These are “Icarusisms”, one of my linguistic miscommunication specialties.

"What the hell could you [two] possibly be talking about?"

"I like you; but why are you talking to me?"

"Is it just my imagination, or have you now taken two swipes at my stance as [some political thing]?"

Good fortune,

- Icarus is as smooth as sand in your panties/underpants...

Yes, or I think I've gotten it "right" and what I say is received in a totally different way from which I meant it.

Because I am such a visual thinker, I often lose the names for things and then end up having to describe the picture in my head to people. This particularly happens with names. I'm awful....I lose names alot.

My coworkers are getting used to being called: "The one with the long dark hair", "The pregnant one....(and now that she's had her baby), you know, the one that just had the baby", "The lady with the locks", "That woman that thinks she runs our program"......I get laughed at a lot. Especially because my co workers tell me that when I lose a word or name for something, I tend to put my hand up close to my head with my palm up and my fingers acting like they are actually searching for the word. I didn't really know that until it happened, and one co worker finally pointed at me and laughed and said, "See what you do. Stop and look at yourself". I do look pretty silly, I guess. But I think that's my body's way of trying to give my brain that visual cue that it needs.