Do you ever....

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....Spend so much time alone or isolated that when a social situation in which you must speak with someone face-to-face arises, you have difficulty actually speaking?

Yeah, sometimes I spend so much time isolated that I actually become AFRAID of face-to-face interaction.

Yep, but then I always have difficulty speaking anyway.

I've been living mostly isolated for a while now. It made communication worse.
But that's not a big deal since when I went to uni I hardly talked to anyone besides my few acquaintances anyway.

No. If I've been alone too long, I become desperate to talk to someone. Like if I've been indoors all day by myself and then when my mum arrives home from work at 5.30pm, I don't stop talking. Sometimes I've even followed her to the toilet because I just needed a burst of social interaction after being alone for too long. It also wakes me up too. I tend to become very lazy and withdrawn when alone for too long. Sometimes I like it, other times I become depressed and need to have social chitchat with someone.

It is quiet usual that my brain will go faster than my mouth and things will come out missing words / jumbled or just plain won't make any sense, as people look at me weird if I take time to think and do not respond immediately.

I talk to myself quite a lot, so i never really get out of practice.
Actually 'mouthing' the words becomes a bit harder though, as does speaking my mother-tongue (my thoughts/internal monologue/dialogue are in english, but i was raised with another language)