brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words 

restaurant...

rest taur-ant.

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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

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re: brain is being weird, please ignore this silliness with words 

@Nine that sounds related to echolalia possibly?

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.

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