Aphasia part of aspegers?

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I always experienced having aphasia since preschool, not sure if i got it as result of brain damage i got or way it developed because of Aspegers?

My Aphasia symptoms:
1. Having no script in my head outlining what i want to say, e.g. i finished watching movie and someone ask me "what this movie was about?" and i have no recap of main events, i can recall only series of individual scenes, but no idea how to explain shortly whats the movie plot because i don't see it. Like when you look closely on something and you don't see the whole picture.

I build sentence as i start to pronounce words, i have no idea what i am trying to say before it starts coming out of my mouth in real time.

Sometimes saying sentence i start saying a word, but then i chance the sentence so that word does not fit in anymore, however i already pronounced that word entirely or partially so sentence sounds gibberish. Sometimes i say word i did not mean to use anymore and to not sound gibberish i chance ending of sentence once again.

2. if i talk fast i confuse words with one another can say "cat" instead of "dog", i see a "cat" in the image inside my head i just say "dog" instead, wrong word i use is always related to the one i meant to pronounce i.e. from same category of - in this instance "domesticated animals". This mistakes mostly happen when i am stressed and cannot use mechanisms/patterns i learned to deal with this, and usually just a word per sentence or when i push myself to talk too fast.

3. when people talk not clear like in this example cannot understand half of the words they saying there, my mind lacking whats needed to build distorted words into meaningful ones, others understand almost everything.

What percentage of Aspies have Aphasia, from videos on YouTube i seen people who claim to be Aspies and they talk fast like normal people, yeah they are silly however they have no problems making their point across.

Not a clue. If you can't find the answer you are looking for on Google, I doubt anyone here will know either.

It certainly seems related to autism for me. I don't know much about in general, though language delays of various kinds are common in autism. My aphasia is very variable depending how I'm coping with other autistic traits and stress. For example; melt-downs and shut-downs can make me completely aphasic, no speech or comprehension at all; when I'm burned out, surrounded by sensory triggers, or I have to switch my attention from something else quickly, the aphasia is more like you describe. Once I'm settled in an environment, I can be much more fluent, though still rather slow, especially to comprehend others; but I can only keep that up for a certain amount of time before I tire. I can't mix conversation with doing anything else at the same time, either.

i spout a lot of gibberish and complete nonsense, can't say the name of things even though I know what it is in my head, substitute words, say the opposite to what I actually mean, have difficulty constructing sentences, repeat what other people say even though it's not what I wanted to say, end sentences in the middle, make a random comment which was meant to be in a conversation that I had 4 hours ago, go mute, and a whole heap of other bizarre stuff.

I have no idea how many Aspies have Aphasia, mine is not from autism.

I have been known to go off on tangents, leaving people scratching their heads in confusion.