Annoying verbal habits

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One of my annoying verbal habits is that I tend to repeat two-word combinations or do delayed repetitions of a given word.

For example...

I went I went to the store. [I really mean "I went to the store"]

The dog went dog to the store. [I really mean "The dog went to the store"]

It seems to be related to whatever my "underlying problem" is, assuming I have one (Other people seem to think I have "mental problems"). Do you have similar verbal oddities? Do tell.

Does anyone know what pathologies may be related to the previous oddities? I'm suspecting Schizohprenia, but I'm not a bona fide psychologist (Though, I swear I'm a really good armchair psychologist... unfortunately, my involuntary patients don't think so. ).

It's really embarrasing when it happens in a letter I'm sending to someone important. Like, for example, I sent the local Labor Department's Field Auditor the following email:

I am frequently "dystaxtic." Perhaps 3-7% of total conversations in a day.

So, when I think I am saying "could you hand me a screwdriver please?" it actually comes out as "hand me the drill?" or "handing the drill?"

Something close to, but not really comprehensible as what I thought I said. Takes a few repetitions before I recognize what the problem is.

With schizophrenia you should be asking if you have hallucinations (most common are auditory but some people experience visual) and delusions. Psychiatrists want to see those two predominant positive symptoms for a period of six months, I believe, before diagnosing.

What you do sounds more like a stammer.

Maybe it's palilalia. I don't know how many repetitions there usually are for palilalia, but I do this often, and I repeat phrases at least five times before I remember to make it stop. It has also shown up in my writing, as has echolalia - a fictional character repeats the utterings of another fictional character without me intending to write it that way.

Interesting, there seems to be an underlining message you are trying to project there aren't you. As the saying goes read between the lines. When someone repeats the word or sentence twice its stuttering. If someone for instance happen to of thought there was for example a streetkid wondering around aimessly around a set of units babbling to him/herself. Then that person who supposedly saw this person proceeds to tell everyone of their thoughts when in reality there is no streetkid at all and its only a neighbour that has come home from being at work or somewhere else and a neighbour who was sitting out the back veranda chatting to friends or family or on the phone that is being dilusional and hulusinating. me from being at work or somewhere else and a neighbour who was sitting out the back veranda chatting to friends or family or on the phone that is being dilusional and hulusinating.

hmmmm....

Aparently talking about my special intrests/obsessions is annoying to some people.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publicat ... rder.shtml

Now that I think about it, if this symptom was characteristic of autism, wouldn't I be seeing it everywhere on the forums? I haven't seen this happen in anybody else's post, so I'm guessing it's definitely not autism-related.

Phewww!

I suppose stammering sounds more plausible.