I'm having speech trouble and it's getting embarrasing!

[sweet tweets]

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Just make sure you don't say something similar to the F-bomb near any babies.. My mom said that in front of my sister when she was just learning to talk and she wouldn't stop saying it

I once told my DH that I thought he was cussing much more than he needed to. He was quite insulted and gave me dirty looks .... until....

We had a VW van and on occasion it was hard to start. This one evening as we set out the van just would not start and from the back row car seat, child #1, smacked his car seat and said, "darn van!".

I just looked at DH and his language usage changed from that poing on. No need for an "I told you so"

Gritsar - hope these language excursions are just lapses and there is nothing else going on!!!! But I have to say, one of the biggest laughs my family got was when one of my brothers said - Look Mommy, there is a Moo Cow! and I am still not sure why we laughed so hard and long at that - but it was hysterical way back when!

 

[Judy]

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That's a good story/point about choices, but I don't think what is happening to the OP is about choices.

 

[wombat]

child #1, smacked his car seat and said, "darn van!".

My aunt and her adult daughter were driving the daughter's two little ones to the zoo. Aunt and daughter were having a conversation up front, kids were in the back cooing and giggling. Out of nowhere, the 3 year old pipes up with "F--- you, Gwanma!"

That kid's 20 now, we still give her a hard time about that

Their father had a "home office" and the kids heard daddy on the phone "working" a bit too often.

My kids remember *everything* they hear me say. Sadly, they also remember everything Mrs. Wombat says, and she can cut loose.​

 

[English Chick]

..... go get a blood test.....

 

[cassie]

That is not how Alzheimers starts.

 

[insiderart]

I will tell you that before I was diagnosed with Graves disease I said all kinds of amazing and wild things. Like, ok I'm going to go to McDonalds and get the groceries now. I mean it could be anything... Like telling my DD "go put that ice cream in the office", maybe she was holding a pencil...

There was all kinds of forgetful weirdness. Like the time I forgot to put the car in park and it rolled down the parking lot into the ditch, with DD inside....

I guess my point is, there can be many things that can cause issues with speech/memory. For me it was overactive thyroid. Hormones can certainly mess you up if they are out of whack. So see the Dr. get a checkup, maybe a hormone panel before you get too worked up.

(I will tell you I was severly chronically debilitated before they finally diagnosed me, and even then I was the one who asked for the thyroid test. Good to be proactive about your health.)

Terri

 

[Eggs4Sale]

Stress.

Once the second kid came, I got a little absent-minded.

Bu the third, I couldn't remember anyone's name, and I'd yell out commands "Get the, the, the white thing, the..." "Diaper?" "Yes, get the diaper!!!" (Not for me, thank you..) I'm trying to remember a great example of this that happened just yesterday with my DH, but for the life of me, there's a blank. See?

My mouth moves way faster than my brain.
This really started with my thyroid, but I know having three kids, with me homeschooling, is a lot of it.

Now I sound like my dad, who called me my sisters' names, the dog names, then finally my name.

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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I didn't know this. I have hypothyroidism, kind of the opposite, and I'd say and do really odd things. Running a stop sign, misspelling my NAME, not getting jokes, saying really odd things and then forgetting mid-sentence what I was even talking about.

 

[Judy]

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Excellent post. Grave's is not the only possibility, of course, but the point is, many possible causes are quite treatable. Diagnosis is the key.

 

[Judy]

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Equally excellent post.

Actually, thyroid function is one of those things that MD's don't always test when they should.

Hmmm, one day last week it took me 3 hours to remember my cat's name....