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08 Jun 2011, 1:12 am

How often does semantic paraphasia happen for you? I noticed that it happens quite often in discussions in real life (For example, today when I was thinking of a broom, I called it a "sweeper".), and I'm curious if this at all symptomatic of aspergian thinking characteristics (Like, possibly, a literal style of using words kind of like Richard Feynmann -- He was looking for an anatomical chart of a cat and asked the librarian, "Do you know where I can find a map of the cat?") or if it's more schizo* in origin.

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08 Jun 2011, 1:43 am

I'm not sure. How about calling the airport the "plane station"? It matches "train station", so it makes sense. Does that count?

Sometimes, I can't think of the correct term for something, so I substitute a word or short phrase. Some are a direct description of the thing, like the Feynman example. Others are neologisms. I couldn't think of the word "catnip" this weekend, so I called it "narcatics".

I don't know if this is semantic paraphasia, but I'm pretty sure I'm not schizophrenic.


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08 Jun 2011, 2:34 am

I have more of a problem with word recall and having to stop and describe the word rather than outright substitution of a word. I think the "word salad" in schizophrenia is more referring to replacing words that aren't similiar.


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08 Jun 2011, 7:09 am

swbluto wrote:
How often does semantic paraphasia happen for you? I noticed that it happens quite often in discussions in real life (For example, today when I was thinking of a broom, I called it a "sweeper".), and I'm curious if this at all symptomatic of aspergian thinking characteristics (Like, possibly, a literal style of using words kind of like Richard Feynmann -- He was looking for an anatomical chart of a cat and asked the librarian, "Do you know where I can find a map of the cat?") or if it's more schizo* in origin.

Thanks! Wrong Planet has some of the best insight I've seen anywhere online.




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a literal style of using words kind of like Richard Feynmann -- He was looking for an anatomical chart of a cat and asked the librarian, "Do you know where I can find a map of the cat?")


Yeah, I've done this. (You got to love Feynman, btw.) One side of my family had paranoid schizophrenia, and as someone mentioned, " word salads," these are common enough in psychosis including "schizo." My grandmother was clearly delusional^, but she never word salad,' she used accurate grammar with twisted accurate concepts.

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp2982445.html#2982445



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08 Jun 2011, 7:33 am

I have phonemic- and semantic paraphasia quite frequently. For example, sometimes I say things like "youl" instead of "your", "rake" instead of "lake", "lice" instead of "ice" like in the example, and so on. I can't think of any examples of semantic paraphasia though, but I know it's like what the page describes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_paraphasia