Confusion and mixing words

[recluse]

Anyone else mix up their words when anxious?

Today at work an old friend from my schooldays whom i hadn't seen for ten years came to the store i work in. I was already anxious and it was me who recognised him first and initiated the convo. I was asking about what he was doing and stuff then i was meant to say ''It's hard to find work these days''......Instead it came out as ''It's find to hard work these days!''...And i said it twice!

Oh god i feel like a retard when i have these moments and i'm scared that people think i am unintelligent especially if the person is the educated/middle class type, I can imagine them judging me by these slip ups.

Also today i had to ask someone's date of birth and i wrote it down...After they had left i realised i had written down 16/4/10 which means they have not even been born yet!

 

[mrb]

well we all get a little anxious around people some times especially if we havent seen them for years , but you have to admit the last bit of your post was funny ...

 

[Kitana]

lol! Don't feel bad hun.. that happens to ppl all the time! On my first day of work at my new job (I'm a hotel representative -- worst job EVER for someone with social phobia) I walked up to the employee I was replacing and asked her "So, where do we check in?" I meant to say "CLOCK IN". The employee, obviously confused, just stared at me. I thought that since I'm a quiet person.. she just didn't hear me -- so I asked her again, louder. After I realized my mistake, I felt soooo stupid lol!

 

[lyricalliaisons]

The same kinds of things happen to me. There always ends up being really weird awkward pauses & I try to say something to make up for it & "fix" it, but I usually can't. Sometimes I just end up standing there like an idiot while they continue staring at me, expecting me to say something. I even mix up words online. Luckily, there's usually an "edit" option & I always hope to catch it before it's too late & anyone else notices, but I'm not always quick enough.

 

[RightSaidteddy]

I do that as well.

I used to it at this stage though.

The worst for me is examinations, I study so hard to pass the bloody thing, but my mind goes into a perpetual state of confabulation!

Ah well!

 

[be_noticed]

yes i have had a problem with mixing words, being painfully corrected then follwed by being cut out of a conversation...by my friends :l

 

[Feathers]

he he Ringo Starr of the Beatles had a problem with this - and some of the Beatles' best songs came from it!!

Soo... you never know?

Otherwise, I had it happen too, especially if mixing about languages or translations or such - I heard it can be a 'professional disease' of translators/interpreters or such.. Though I haven't done that much of that..

Some countries also write dates differently, in Slovenia or some other countries 16.4.2010 would be perfectly allright! (Though I guess it would be a newly born kid this April..)

Good friends or relatives will just accept it or laugh about it.. Some may even think you brilliantly funny for it (even if it's not being done on purpose ) I'd hate to be nitpicked about it too, yeah.. But often people just understand what I'm saying even if it's said wrong?? lol..