Dysnomia (word-retrieval issues)

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Welcome, Kim.

Gotta say, that was a pretty mild vent!

I know how frustrating it is when I have an “LD moment” and I’m sure you feel the same.

Take care,
Barb

Hi Barb,
That’s not all that goes through my mind! :)
Sometimes, I’ll remember times that my LD got in the way or I’m experiencing something LD-related, and I’ll get pretty frustrated, bummed, angry…. It’s good to know that others go through this, too. Just makes you feel a bit better! (People who don’t have LD’s just don’t get it.)
-Kim

Hi!

I have memory issues too, because of my dyscalculia. Don’t know what to do about it, but you are not alone. Even if people with ld does not have that dsynomia, most of us have problems with our memory in some way or another…

I forget words all the time, in several different languages!
I’ve mentioned before that I have nine out of ten of the symptoms of NLD except for being very good in math, never diagnosed because the concept didn’t exist in my youth.

Recently someone said something uncomplimentary about my French because I hesitated — but I hesitate as much or more in English. Too bad.
When I get overtired or extremely stressed it descends into a full-scale loss of words and stammer, on a good day just hesitations.
One thing I have noticed:
I am *terrible* with names, always have been. Inherit it honestly from my mother, who would try to call me and run through all the names in the family — my father, my brother, her sister, the cat … we told her it was bad enough she couldn’t get the gender right, but could she please try to remember the species?
The other words I lose are most often nouns, ie names of objects. “Give me the whatchamacallit” is a standard sentence in the family.
Lord knows why.

We don’t let it stop us, several of the world’s champion talkers. Some of us are quiet in youth and then get rolling in our twenties. Full speed ahead and *(&^ the torpedoes. Or whatever those thingies were.

Read a lot and develop a good vocabulary so you have synonyms, learn to talk around a subject (there’s a word for doing that, I know, but it isn’t coming to me now), and remember the kind of people who make fun of you for a minor flaw like that are not nice people that you want as friends anyhow.

I remember! Paraphrase, that’s what you do.

:lol: K-S, you came darn close to swearing there! Better be careful!

The family and I went to a blockparty last Saturday. It was so embarrassing. I was meeting people who live on the street where we’ve lived for almost 3 years now. I really wanted to learn their names. I can remember [I]one[/I] woman’s name, Mary Ann (Like Ginger’s friend in Gilligan’s Island. :roll: ). People would tell me their names and it would go in one ear and out the other. It’s just dreadful.

And I’d be trying to explain something and have to stop and say, “You know [snapping my fingers, trying to remember], that THING.” Husband teases me and says, “No, I don’t. You need to be a little more specific than that!”

Mom did the same thing with our names. I’m the youngest, so it took her longer to get to me. And it’s very telling. Since I’ve become an adult she started calling me by her youngest sister’s name. But the whole family does it. My older sister calls me by her daughter’s name. My brother calls me by his daughter’s name.

The worst is when I’m scolding husband about something and refer to him by the dog’s name. :oops: :D

Hmmm, wonder if I might have some tendencies toward this too. I often catch myself saying “Oh what is that word” or like you said, I will go “Give me that…that…that THING!” :)
I do have dyslexia and a lot of signs of CAPD. Good to meet people on these boards who know what it’s like.