Do you notice most people speak more fluently than you?

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I don't speak as fluent as I should. I had no speech until Age 5. I tended towards the pedantic as a youngster...towards the vernacular now.

Yes, all the time. It takes me an extra second to respond and I do have an interesting turn of phrase.

Sometimes I stutter as well but that is only when I am very uncomfortable and someone is talking to me a mile a minute.

I forget to say basic words all the time, such as 'the', 'and', 'then', etc. However, I have always been very good about pronouncing words from other languages.

Really, no speech until age five? How amazing, you present yourself so well on here!

My son first spoke at age three years, nine months and still does not have syntax and grammar down despite having had speech therapy for the past 10 years. He will, for example, say, "Why you don't like Super Mario?" He also has a few childlike speech issues which the ST doesn't believe he'll ever grow out of (which is okay with us and with him), such as saying the "f" sound for "th" ("fank you"). However, in addition to being OTS, he is intellectually delayed. I'm not sure whether that makes the difference, but perhaps.

I'm also very aware that some people OTS who have issues expressing themselves verbally can nevertheless type out their thoughts.

Anyway, I'm impressed. You really do present yourself very, very well at least in writing, from what I've seen on here. I'd never have guessed you ever had a speech delay.

Last edited by NowhereWoman on 22 Sep 2015, 12:47 pm, edited 3 times in total.

I have trouble making sentences, follow-up sentences, replying, replying in time, using the right words, remembering words, being flexible with sentence structure...
Consequently I often get stuck mid-sentence or don't even speak at all.
My sentences often don't convey the meaning I intend to.

Also when I type, I often skip entire words. I don't even notice until I check what I've written.

I often trail off randomly in the middle of a sentence or repeat words over and over again while my mind tries to catch up. I didn't speak much until I was around 3 or 4 years old. I used sounds instead [moo for cow or meow for cat, ectc].

Thank you so much for the compliment!

In truth, it was weird. I went from no speech at all to virtually "normal" speech by the age of six. At the age of six, I also learned to dress myself, to cross the street, and to tie my shoes primitively. I also learned to go to the store and make sure I get the correct change (that happened before age 6, actually).

To this day, I have a stutter, tend to pronounce "w" when "r" is called for (which is sort of NYC dialectal as well), tend to used "clipped" syntax rather than relatively complex sentences, and have occasional word-finding difficulties.

I used to speak quite fast and cluttered. I've gotten somewhat better with that over the years.

Yes people do speak more fluently than I do. (assuming by fluent you mean more smoothly)



That sounds like auto-editing after the words come out. My improv instructor picked on me for that once. It caused some confusion because I wasn't realizing that I was doing it. It's just something that happens automatically.

So you sound pretty normal to me.

my speech sucks; I don't enunciate well enough, mumble, talk way too fast or way to slow

trail of, repeat words, repeat sentences, repeat points, I circle around it

my short term memory sucks, I forget names, I forget words, I never know how to phrase things

There's a great computer programme called Brain Builder that does wonders for both visual and auditory problems, as well as short term memory. You might be able to find it on Amazon. It's helped me a lot over the years.