mincing words!

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Who does this your talking to some one. you KNOW! what to say!
your talking in a conversation and it all goes south

Something in between your brain and your mouth
goes wrong. But if I speak a normal rate all is good for about . . . . .
10 seconds, then i start to sputter out like a 2 stroke motor
laboring up a steep hill. But if i speak slower the words
seems to flow normally. (But if i speak this way I would most probably get stares.)

Is this a sympton Of AS?

anyway i can fix this problem????

Yes, I have a bad problem with speaking exactly as you describe. People get frustrated and try finish my words and sentences which I actually find helpful. It is like I think of what I want to say in picture form then have to convert it to pictures of words then read the words so it all sounds very monotone and patchy depending on how tired I am and therefore how fast I can do this. It is worse at the moment as no-one here speaks english as a first language so I have to speak properly. When I can use my own dialect I can talk faster. When I give presentations I am also usually okay but am so stressed the adrenalne speeds everything up and the `pictures`are on the slides.
I don`t know how to fix this, I had to tell my boss I had AS as he was getting very frustrated with me but is now being extremely patient.
I would go with the slow speaking actually, you will get stares for sputtering also, and at least you will be understood. I think that gradually you might be able to speed up when you have more practice.

I get something like this. I usually find it helps if I know what I'm going to say to them beforehand, which you can't really do in a conversation. So I have phrases that I know I can use in any conversation, and I'll just randomly throw them in when I can't think of the words for what it is I want to say. But, as a consequence, all my conversations are forced and I rarely properly communicate with people.

I think 'I don't know' is the my most used phrase. I know what I want to say but as soon as I try to get it out the thoughts get jumbled and I can't find the connections that I had before. I'll struggle to get about half way through and then 'I don't know'. I'll try to regroup my thoughts and it's over with. Too late. The conversation has passed.

My biggest problem with speech, aside from my occasional stutter, is the fact that if I have something to say, I tend to say it, without thinking of the consequences until straight after I've spoken.

It's like I understand the principles of conversation on an intellectual level, but can't quite apply them when I'm talking