Re: Rate problems when speaking

[ashockley55]

Ditto here. I embarrass myself a lot tripping and stumbling over my words. I do a lot of starting one word and switching to another in the middle of it. I sound a lot like that character from, was it Looney Tunes, I think? I get so concerned with trying to say what I want to say correctly, that I do a lot of stumbling and starting then changing my mind in the middle of a sentence. It can be very hard to have patience to listen to me. I also patch two different phrases together sometimes. I’m a waitress, and this can be, well, both hysterical and disconcerting for the guests, depending on their sense of humor. But yes, I do the talking too fast thing. When I was diagnosed bipolar it was called the “pressured speech” aspect of that disorder. I can say outrageous, embarrassing things that are inappropriate, except I happen to work in an environment where it is a little more accepting. Not that I would ever want to work in a stuffy, conservative office, but I would like to acquire more for my life than working as a waitress. I’m intelligent, and I think I am capable of doing more with my brain than serve up green beans.

It’s funny, because even though I’ll pop off with something inappropriate, I’ll get embarrassed I said it. So people look at me strange when I say something and then turn red. It’s like, YOU said it, why are you getting embarrassed???

Lord. lol.

But YES, I also have the mama thing. She’s the only one I feel comfortable with enough to get my thoughts out with.

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