brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
restaurant...
rest taur-ant.
...
an ant-taur resting.
....help
brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
does anybody else do this thing where they say a word they've used hundreds of times bepfore and then suddenly have to... stop and... say it over and over because now suddenly it sounds strange and weird mental images come up and you can't stop thinkinga bout it and now the word is fucking weird and aaaaaaaaa
re: brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
@Felthry I was wondering bout this. I remember years and years ago when I was like... 8 or something and I was just... sat in our living room on my own and mum was in the kitchen and I suddenly thought of the word mushroom and
... I ended up just sitting there spacing out going "mushroom" to myself over and over, quietly, sounding the word out. I knew what mushrooms were but... I dunno, the word just caught me for some reason.
brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
@Nine I think it's common for people to suddenly have a word go weird and lose its meaning for a bit, but not quite like that?
Are the mental images pleasant?
brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
@BatElite uh... sometimes??? an ant-taur does sound kinna cute and interesting. insect taur frien' deserves rest, very hard worker.
sometimes it's slightly distressing like I can't stop syaing the word over and over even though I know this happens and sometimes the wor djust... becomes noise.
brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
@Nine :<
*Offers a hug*
brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
@BatElite *hughughughugs!* Mushroom is one of the few words I remmeber that had unpleasant feels attached to it, but luckily they're rare occurances
brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
@Nine 💜
Did it get better with age, maybe?
brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
@BatElite maybe i just learned to suppress it more. I think... honestly I was taught to suppress a lot of things. I have this vague memory of being in trouble because I was at some kind of... youth activity thing???? somewhere else? (I was like.. i dunno, super young) and I just ... couldn't that day, and just lay down under a table for a while not wanting to interact, then got told I couldn't beon the floor, so lay ON the table.
re: brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words
@Nine that sounds related to echolalia possibly?