BLIP AND TRIP

[Trippys]

Frustrating is when you have a blip and trip. For me a 'blip' is saying something unintentionally which can be deemed inappropriate or insensitive. Trip is tripping over your words...more like foot in mouth. If I don't laugh I will cry.

[Smegly]

That is exactly me 🤣 I also forget words mid sentence and end up making a right idiot of myself 😜 x

[Trippys in reply to Smegly]

Happens to me all the time too🤣

[AlteredWorld]

I leave half sentances everywhere when I am trying to concentrate on the right words in a serious conversation - worse still is that my half sentances start backwards - as in from a negative perspective...

It's very frustrating and damaging to relationships outside of my head if people react halfway through the sentance before I get to the postive bit - I get so panicked I end up following their train of thought and not my original intention - all because my brain starts backwards since I got Fibro...

What hinders it more is that I have a degree in english and communications - so people expect me to get the words right and in the right order - so end up thinking I'm lying or backtracking. It's compounded when my brain chooses the antithesis of the word I'm looking for - giving an extra level of negativity to my conversations which I have no idea I'm adding to.

I feel akin to a stroke survivor in that my brain will pick any word at all to mean any other word at all... bit like the title ofthe book... the man who mistook his wife for a hat.

It sucks, but now I warn people that I do this and keep double checking for feedback during these conversations.

[whattodo7 in reply to AlteredWorld]

I feel the same. I try to plan the conversation which takes an extra toll otherwise I will be anxious all the time and most of the time if I meet people unplanned then I just don't have anything to say. I just feel I cannot process anything they are saying and try to look out for keywords so it makes sense to me.

[AlteredWorld in reply to whattodo7]

whattodo7 if my hypervigilance kicks in in an outdoor scenario, my brain, eyes and ears are pre-occupied with my environment checking for imminent danger - that I have no idea what is being said and just hope I can get away with nodding and looking like I'm listening...

😀👍

[Trippys in reply to AlteredWorld]

I keep interrupting mid sentence, 1 minute everything is there next minute it's gone. Like you I warn beforehand

[CheetieCat]

Blip n' Trip regularly throughout the day too!

Often think if I was a phone I would be binned for low call volume, vibrating willy nilly for no reason & totally blanking out during calls 😳

If only it was so easy just to get an upgrade!

So with you on if we didn't laugh we'd cry ☺️

[JayCeon]

In serious situations my cortisol/adrenaline help me keep my words together. At home my wife used to make fun of me not concentrating on grammar etc. with my education until I had a serious talk that she's not helping and that I need times where this is not important. So I may deliberately leave my talk sounding silly, esp. when I'm tired and don't correct myself. If she laughs about it that's OK, we laugh together, but she doesn't make fun of me any more.

[Trippys in reply to JayCeon]

On my worse day I hate questions or having to make decisions on those days my family knows just don't bother asking me anything.

[Acocoa]

Exactly sometimes laughter is medicine 😜🤣