“I don’t know, Jeff! I must’ve missed that.” Legendary!

I don’t have slurred speech but I speak really really fast to the point when I end up swallowing words. When I speak to a stranger or random person I make a conscious effort to speak slowly. And people don’t really realize I’m actually speaking way slower than I normally do coz I’ve managed to sound normal.

I only speak at my ‘normal fast pace’ with my family, close friends and girlfriend who can all understand me

Completely agree with the mind being faster than my ability to articulate. That’s basically how it is in my case. Must be horrible being a commentator with slurred speech. Glad he’s in a better place now

Yeah — I have mild verbal paraphasia at baseline, but it becomes extremely severe if I’m tired or overly stressed. I used to compete in speaking and presentation stuff at an international level and now it’s like … in a previous job, we were doing 5+ interviews with teenagers for our summer program positions each day and it got chaotic. By the end of the week, I couldn’t string a sentence together even though I had a list of questions in a document and the teens were like, “…why can’t the person running the writing program communicate effectively?”

(It does cross into writing sometimes and looks like mistakes that a non-native speaker would make except I am a native speaker who still writes for a living. “Medal” instead of “metal,” “what” instead of “that,” etc. I just refuse to do things like taking notes for meetings because the first time I write something down may end up being chaotic. With time to revise and digital tools to check my work, I can still submit clean copy to my editors.)

Was also thinking of Jim Ross and the episodes of Bell’s Palsy