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.
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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.
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