Do you sometimes stumble over words?

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Yes, I stumble over my words quite a lot. I´ve said some really bizarre things while teaching classes. Oh well...I just laugh about it.

Heh, a lot.
Fortunately, sometimes due to my strong accent people just do not get what I ve said. It only comes out really stupid when I say Hello instead of bye-bye or or say Hi to a person whom I am supposed to greet more formally.. Or say ''nice to meet you" instead of "twas nice seeing you". People must think that those are language things (my husband does and sometimes corrects me . I asked him to correct my language mistakes). Heh, nobody knows that in my native language I am even worse at that. At least they trained me to speak English at a University (I studied for a teacher of English). But in my own language I say a lot more stupid things and make a lot more slips.

all the time :/
sometimes i stutter too...

ive been looking for other people who do this...i tend to change or take away a word in a sentence that makes the sentence very hard to understand to outsiders.. i think there is a problem where my brain does not think in normal language and so when i talk the language i utter is closer to what i think.. and also if i talk about something i can suddenly switch topic mid sentence and go from there...

but by far the most common one is cutting the sentence short by taking away the end word....

in some sentences like "see you later" it is ok and becomes "see you", but in other sentences where the end word is crucial it is very weird and people tend to look at me with the "oh you poor ret*d" look and then i feel pretty stupid...

i wonder if it is related to Autism? as i do not know anyone else who does this...

This thread is hilarious I'm actually busting out laughing because I can relate to a lot of these things. It's really, really frustrating, embarrassing, and it affects my self-esteem when I people try to talk with me or vice versa. Not only do I get sentence mixed up and I don't make any sense, but I sometimes stutter a tiny bit and I also am told that I mumble and have a low volume. It is quite often that I am in mid-sentence and then I am cut off like as if I was done talking. Or I'll ask a question or say something waiting for a response, but the other person just looks at me with a small smile and doesn't say anything. I think people think I'm weird.

I didn't have these problems ten years ago when I was around 20ish. I don't know what happened. I'm a pretty quiet person and I'm constantly talking to myself (in my head). In fact, I'm always thinking about things and often run into the problem that someone talks to me, but I'm still thinking about what I was already thinking about, thus making me clueless about what the person said to me. My wife hates it! I've told her that she needs to wait a few seconds after getting my "attention" then ask me if I'm actually paying attention before she starts telling me something.

I don't go out with friends anymore. I don't hang out with anyone except my wife and baby. At work, there isn't all that much interaction either as I'm usually in front of a computer all day.... thinking (silently talking) to myself. I don't seem to have any communication problems when I'm talking to myself. But anyway, I wonder if the lack of talking with people often is contributing to the problem.

Is it because I'm thinking too much and too fast that is causing my speech problems? Or is it because I'm slow? I usually accel at most everything I do including work, school, and sports, but I still feel like people may think I'm slow.

Just a few weeks ago, I talking with a friend and I kept trying to say something like "talk to a lawyer" but I think I was thinking attorney, so I kept verbally trying (for a few times at least) saying to my friend "talk to an a lawyer".... so weird.

I have this other problem.... I can't understand what people are saying to me, especially if I'm caught off guard. Like I said, I'm usually in my own little world even if everyone in the locker room is talking about something. Then if someone says something about me and expects my reaction, or asks me a question, I'm like "huh? I'm sorry, I wasn't paying attention." Or in other situations, someone will say something and I try to take a second or two to decipher what they said, but I often can't and need to ask them to repeat it a few times. Sometimes I still don't understand. I've had my hearing checked a bunch of times, but my hearing is good. I wonder if there is something else going on. My mom seems to have this problem too, especially when talking with me.... she can't ever understand what I am saying.

Any suggestions?? I seriously need help. As funny as the problems can be, as you all know, it can be damaging to one's self-esteem as well. It definitely makes me feel better seeing that I'm not the only one though.

Oh yes, and in a variety of ways. I stutter, I switch the orders of words or letters (have a dood gay instead of good day), talk too fast and the words jumble up to the point where I must stop what I was saying, apologize, and try to repeat. It seems to have gotten worse as I've gotten older. I cant remember stuttering as a child but I do it daily now.

No, but I do slur my words alot.

I do this all the time unless I'm in the shrinks office & then they think I'm lying because I act perfectly normal.

I often say words in the wrong order, wrong time of day greeting (good morning when it's late in the day or have a nice night in the morning), slur my words (not a drinker so I'm not drunk), or just can't say anything without it coming out all wrong. It's worse when I'm on the spot.

Every single sentence of my life.

This is me down to a tee, especially in classes.

For me, it doesn't matter how many times I can practice what I'm going to say to someone in my head. When it comes time to talk, I find my myself struggling to put sentences together and usually focus so much on trying to complete my sentence that I forgot everything I rehearsed in my mind. I'll stutter and scramble to find words so much that I probably sound incoherent to some.

definitely

Yup, I hate this. Its pretty much one of the main reasons I just tend to keep my mouth shut at ANY social gathering

This happens to me all the time. The words that I say come out differently than the words I'm thinking of in my brain.

Yep. This happens pretty often with me.