I keep unconsciencely substituting words and was wondering if you guys can relate. As, to me, it has been happening more and more frequently lately. Today, I caught myself these three times. I said: 1. Turn the bird’s light off 2. Come get your breakfast 3. Your book is in your garage Meant to say: 1. Turn the fish’s light off. ( mind you we do not have any birds) 2. Come get your dinner 3. Your book is in the garage
I seem to do this too!! In fact, I don’t quite regularly!! Debs xx
It was meant to say that I do it quite regularly! X
I do this all the time. The most memorable ones are:
I asked my daughter for her lord and bodge money (board and lodge)
I chickled the dog under her tin (tickled her under her chin)
It usually gives us a good giggle but sometimes it’s really annoying. Especially so when I can’t remember the words I’m trying to say!
Don’t worry, you’re not alone!
Sarah x
I do it too! But my memory is rubbish too so I can’t remember any ha ha.
I do this on a regular basis! I will come out with completely random words that bear no resemblance to the ones I mean to say.
It’s very frustrating, isn’t it?
I also say the wrong vowel sounds, which can be very embarrassing!
me too, and I also do what you did Debs34, writing oposite to what I am thinking. At home it is laughed off, but I found at work it was underminding my position and being held against me. Both of these responses kill your confidence though. If anybody has any answers I wll be keen to know.
x
I do it all the time. I remember we were writing about this on here a few weeks ago. I asked my husband to get rid of a “dandelion” on the bathroom ceiling…it was a daddy-long-legs
Hello Medion
Do people at work know about your condition. Sometimes when your open and talk about a problem, it can free you from that feeling your experiencing at the moment in you work environment. You will always have people in life happy to knock someone if they get the chance…but thats their problem…you leave that one to them.
There are more good people in this world…thats a fact…positive thinking girl
Yeh, I do it too.
We now always call our computers, cucumbers
My worst word mix up went like this;
I cant find the licking up wash dik`
Can you work that one out?
pollx
Ditto, I do it daily, can’t actually remember and example though lol
LOL. My most recent one was when asked a member of team at work to fetch me file, I said can you get the weatherman please, Random, have no idea where that came from, doesn’t even sound similar!
Oh and I frequently call my som Jake “jeff” for no apparent reason.
I do it lot amd my family call them mumisms, they find it hilarious which is great, we laugh about it rather than worry about it x
I’m right there with you. My five year old daughter says that Mr. Topsy-Turvy has got into my head! I often get the wrong initial sound, even to getting my daughter’s name wrong 
I get words wrong too. It happens more if I’m tired or trying to do to many things at once, or if I’m hot. It’s hard when these mistakes are made fun of and you just feel that you’re losing control of yourself. Sometimes it’s easy to laugh it off and sometimes you need to be gentle with yourself.
For years now I have had a problem with the word pyjamas. For some reason I keep saying bathers. Thank goodness my children are now 19 & 16 so at least I don’t have to tell them to get their pjs on any more.
I work as a tutor and apart from from the fact I can never say Smart Art graphics correctly, my major problem is that I’m bilingual, but most of my groups only speak English. Increasingly over the last few years I’ve seen a look of horror on my groups faces as I’ve been speaking.Then my support worker tells me that I’ve been speaking Welsh.It happens more often when I’m tired, but I know I’ve done this since I was a teenager. In my first Saturday job, I confused a customer by saying " you’ll have to aros for the dwr to poeth up a bit " when he asked for a cup of tea. What I meant to say was " you’ll have to wait for the water to warm up a bit"
I don’t know if I can truly attribute this to MS or the fact that I’m mental anyway.
Thanks for all your responses. Nice to see we can take it in stride and have a laugh. yes, thank Goodness for teenagers. Mine has also adapted and easily figures out what I am trying to him. I, too confuse my sons names. i call levi ivan and ican levi. Sometimes they even get, you whatever your name is lol thanks for your support. love ya guys. Is that, I can’t find the wash cloth
Forgot to say, the other day while I was driving under the influence without drinking lol focus focus focus Relate, relate, relate Thank goodness for chat groups
My post before the dui did not post o well will try again. I am glad we can see the humor in our circumstance and laugh about it. Yes, thank goodness for teenagers. Mine has adapted and can easily figure out what I am trying to say. I too call my sons by the wrong name. I call levi ivan and ivan levi and sometimes they get you whatever your name is lol Thanks for all your responses Thank goidness for chat groups Oh is that I can’t find the wash cloth