I have always had a problem with stammering but not a big problem, it seems to have got worse over the years actually. But I don't think I have a stammer vocally. Hmm this is hard to get across... when I try and talk to someone it's like my brain jams up, I know what I want to say but my brain hasn't put it in normal words yet and somehow the message doesn't get from A to B and I stammer terribly as a reult. Sometimes no matter how hard I try it just can't get my words out, but I seem to be able to say something like "hold on a sec I'll get it out in a minute." and yet I still struggle to get what I actually want to say out.

Does this make sense? Does anyone else do this?

I don't know if this is to do with ADHD or not, it might be lack of organisation in my brain I just don't know. I don't think it's anxiety because im not a very anxious person.

I think I understand what you're referring to.

Probably this is part of the "impulsive" thing. You think you have a clear idea of what you want to communicate, while probably, it's just that you're beginning to form what it is you want to communicate. So you begin to "blurt" it out, even though, in your mind, you aren't blurting at all. It isn't until you're half way into the thought that you find yourself lacking the words to communicate, and now it's a sort of "panic mode". You're trying to hold onto your audience while you struggle to form the rest of the thought, so you keep talking - kinda. There's the stuttering. I come from a family of people that love to interrupt eachother - by the time we're in our teens, we've either learned to go without taking a breath for an entire conversation, or we don't have the chance to talk very often. So I understand this much - while I don't think it's a "true" stutter, it's very much like that.. I will hang onto one word, repeating it, searching my head for what should follow.. sometimes entire sentences painfully forged like this. Not as frustrating for me as it is for the people attempting not to interrupt me, I'm sure. :p

Personally, I think this may have a lot to do with ADD - it's not nerves, just a lack of communication between Brain (point A) and Mouth (point B). Not that you're slow - no, I think part of that is your brain going over 100 possible ways of wording what you're trying to say, and with so many words trying to jam their way through to Point B, there's a confusion reaching your mouth.

On the mark at all?

That's exactly it, thank you for your reply.

You worded it a lot better then I did. :D

I have a similar but different problem. When Im speaking to someone, my brain runs through far too many words to put into one sentence (like a thesarus functioning for each word I speak). Often I end up spitting out one word that is two words put together. Hmm, does that make any sense?

I start to think about how I don't know what I saying and how dumb i look and then I really freeze up

YES...& no. It makes PERFECT sense to me & we make NO sense to those with whom we are trying to communicate.

I like to call it "speaking in tongues". I'm sure that's how it sounds to others...like the holy ghost gone'n take 'holda my soul!!!

My husband has been trying to help me with it. Although I can't prevent it, I can catch it & stop myself before it gets too bad.

My Dr mistook this as "pressured speech" & insisted on treating me for bipolar. What a nightmare. I have a new Dr.

For me, I think part of it is the two extremes of my vocabulary recall. Either I can't think of a word or I think of too many & my brain doesn't sort & organize before I spew them out.

I HOPE this is the ADD.

bc:o

That's exactly it, thank you for your reply.

You worded it a lot better then I did. :D
Well, what I really wish is that I could offer some sort of advice on how to help correct it! :D

I've never bothered, really, to "fix" this. It doesn't bother me much anymore, except for with new people, and sometimes at work. The only thing that's helped in those situations is to keep reminding myself that I don't NEED to say everything that pops into my head. Through this I've learned that a lot of what I say is really just a fleeting thought, an internal working that I think NT's never realize they're having, or at least never think to voice. It sucks, keeping my mouth shut and just voicing simple "yes" "no" and "maybe" replies, but it does keep me out of trouble. I can always voice those things to someone else at a later time, if the thoughts stick with me long enough (most of the time, they don't.. tells me something there, too).

Great point Becka.
We just seem to justfiy that her problems are real, and that many ADDers experience it.
But that doesn't help the problem.
Hey, at least you aren't alone. LOL
As for a solution, when someone finds it, PLEASE POST IT ON HERE! :D
I agree with that Thesaurus idea.
I do that all the time.
Funny, I find I'm doing it more....comes with age I guess.
Some of you that are on here and know my age are starting to throw things about now, aren't you. :p