Anyone else was mentally unable to talk?

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Growing up there were many times someone tried to have a conversation with me but my brain wouldn't be able to connect to talk

It seemed like my brain was always deep in brain fog

Does this brain fog feel like thinking requires tearing through cotton wool inside your head?

It is called selective mutism; it is very common

KanyeWestFan Interesting question. I think Aspinator response is correct. It is called selective mutism.

My smallest grandson when he was a child did not start speaking early. He was quiet and just listened, listened, listened. After about a year, he began to speak but he said only one word NO. That was the only word that he said. So whatever you asked him, he would say NO. This was not good, so I forced him to say something other then NO. I would say, "Do you want some candy?" He would say Noooooahmmmm. He would try and say YES but it came out all mixed up. Then after a few weeks, the word YES finally came out and then BOOOOM he began to speak.

So I think it can be common in children, perhaps more common in girls. Some remain quite for a long time or if they speak, they speak in whispers.

Humans are a very complex being. This is because we have multiple brains. One exist on the left side of our skull. It is the dominant brain, our daytime brain. But the other side of the skull, the right side also has a brain, our night time brain that exist during REM and deep NREM sleep. So for some of us we just experience a brain reversal. It just takes us longer to adapt.

When , my brain was thinking too much ..And someone would through a question in at me ,on top of it ..At times,
My brain would stop and not reconfigure itself to the incoming information...not, fast enough..or it would just not want to change gears..One thing at a time. And left me unable to respond. At least until it reconfigured itself to address the question,, up to a week later ..

When I was young and undiagnosed I wouldn't *stop* talking. Mostly about my special interests that no one else cared about. My mother used to scold me a lot because of it. When I look back at it now, it just fills me with cringe. I seldom talk about my interests offline now.