People not finishing sentences properly

Lysander

Lysander

Lysander

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Does this drive anyone else here crazy? Maybe it's a misophonic trigger for me. I can't stand it when people start hesitating [yeah yeah, some people have stutters and stammers, I don't mean those people]. "Why don't you go and put it in the ...er ... erm... um", "I just wanted to go to the supermarket to get the eeerrrr errr what's it called...", "I have to get it from the eerrrrr...."

AGHHHHH HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ALL YOUR NOUNS??? It's actually more annoying when you know what they're going to say.

Maybe I just have issues.

Right up there with people who call you up for some piece of information at work, and then have to go and get a pen?!
 
This can happen with aging. I 'never' used to have words "on the tip of my tongue" but it has happened a few times in more recent years. Names in particular, I know the person I mean, but just can't recall their name instantly like I used to. I notice it in my dad too, he used to be pretty sharp but gets frustrated now not being able to converse quite as easily.

That said, my MIL is particularly bad at this, she'll basically say a sentence and then wait for my wife to add the last word.
 
Lysander said:
AGHHHHH HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN ALL YOUR NOUNS??? It's actually more annoying when you know what they're going to say.
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The first things that come to your mind are the words you used the most often.
it's not the persons fault if the brain isn't making the connections because it's a pattern that is used less often?

your brain is basically jumping to the wrong conclusions literally it seems
 
You'd hate me then, since starting on the anti anxiety meds I really struggle to think of certain words :( I never used to be this thick.
 
Maybe its some form of dementia. If people are doing that then I doubt they are doing it on purpose.

If I see someone is struggling with something my first reaction is to try and help them, even if it means just having a bit more patience.
 
BowdonUK said:
Maybe its some form of dementia. If people are doing that then I doubt they are doing it on purpose.

If I see someone is struggling with something my first reaction is to try and help them, even if it means just having a bit more patience.
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loads of medication affects cognitive ability even if they aren't ones you would associate with the brain.

I'm on PPI inhibitors which basically don't let your stomach make as much acid and my brain feels really foggy and slow since.

a fast google tells me they did tests on people who were only taking the same meds for a week and they showed cognitive decline.
I'm on them since 2 months on a high dose, I should be on a low dose in another month and then hopefully return to normal.
 
arknor said:
loads of medication affects cognitive ability even if they aren't ones you would associate with the brain.

I'm on PPI inhibitors which basically don't let your stomach make as much acid and my brain feels really foggy and slow since.

a fast google tells me they did tests on people who were only taking the same meds for a week and they showed cognitive decline.
I'm on them since 2 months on a high dose, I should be on a low dose in another month and then hopefully return to normal.
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I hear you on the meds and it affecting the stomach. There is a gut-brain connection, so anything that puts your gut in to problems begins to mirror in the brain. Hopefully when you get on the lower dose you'll be back to normal :)

I think we should all try and treat others how we'd want to be treated ourselves. Sooner or later 99% of the people on the forum are going to need help from someone else. So we should all store up our good patience record before the time comes.
 
I do this all the time, always have. Conversations are just too fast, my brain can't do all the thinking it wants to do in real time like that, so it ends up not recalling whatever I really wanted to say. I'm actually really smart, but put me in a conversation, or interview, and I sound like I never went to school.
 
This happens to me all the time. But what I find REALLY annoying is when the person I'm talking to doesn't know what it is I'm trying to say (when I can't get the word out straight away) and just stands there waiting...I mean...come on...are you not listening...are you stupid...you know what I mean...right...? No? Idiot! :rolleyes:
 
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