Is it normal i can't say words/sentences that don't feel right?

If a word or phrase doesn't feel right to me I can't say it. For example...At the last place I worked if you saw a customer come in you were suppose to greet them with a "Hello. Welcome to such and such." I could not say that for the life of me. If it was a matter of getting fired or saying that phrase I would have been fired because I could absolutely, 100%, not say it. I believe it's gotten me in minor trouble at work a few times. The only way I can explain it is that at the times I had the opportunity to say it I would become mute and nothing would come out of my mouth or I'd revert back to something I felt okay saying.

This comes to mind when I'm sitting in a restaurant. I could NEVER say things a waitress/waiter says such as (Although this might be the only thing I would refuse to say.) "Hello I'm >name< I'll be your waiter." It just doesn't sound right. To me it's like saying "Yes" in reply to "How are you?"

Another example would be using 'yeah' and 'yes'. I can't say yes in certain situations. I remember I was at my grandma's and she asked me something to which I replied, "Yeah." She went off on a spiel about how it was yes not yeah and that yeah wasn't a real word and all I could think was there's no way I could say "Yes" even for her sake.

Does anyone understand me and/or do this too?!

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  • Enlightened

    I want to ask you something and I am serious-trust me. Are you interested in mathematics ? Actually, You are being too logical, which will sound funny and peculiar to most of the people. Though this quality of yours might be rare, but there is nothing 'abnormal' in this world. In fact, 'abnormal' is a label which majority of people keep in their mind to consider themselves as normal. 'Abnormality' might be an extreme end of a spectrum, it might be a deviation, but a person who has that thing knows that it doesn't follow a 'CHOICE', like homosexuality was once considered a paraphilia, but now it has technically been removed from the list, becuase it's a programmed thing (though unproductive and might cause permanent physical damage, that's why considered an anti-natural defect). Many of the geniuses didn't know how they got the answer of the grand unsolved question, which made them famous. Even in their own testimony: it just came to their mind. People affected by 'autism' syndrome turning genius is not only a matter of fictitious screen presentation. I suggest you to go through philosophy. It's a work of intellect like mathematics. Analytic, where you will truly find discourses and treatises and dissertations(in the form of articles) which would be considered as weird and bizarre(surreal) by most of the ordinary(practical/pragmatic/empirical) people.(I am telling you this from my practical experience, if you take my suggestion for granted, you will see there are 'peculiar' people like you in the world, the fact which might soothe you). I think you are suffering from abstraction , reification so to speak(considering something abstract as concrete). You might have hidden talents other than those of practical field(life), who knows ! I am not joking with you....I ask you to consult the internet(including Wikipedia) for which you don't have to go anywhere and you can get free access form home. I suggest you to learn philosophy, if properly learned, I can even cure Rape Trauma Syndrome partially. It might inspire you.

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  • stopit!!stopit!!

    Its totally normal, similar things happen to me all the time, I think you have OCD. Not the clean orderly kind, the crazy kind that doesn't make any sense, thats what I have. Im not sure if its this way for you, but when something like that happens for me, my mind usually tells me that somethin bad will happen to me if I do the thing. For example, Im emetophobic so I have a hard time saying words that relate to vomit, even typing the word feels crappy.

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs

    What the fuck

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  • kingofcarrotflowers

    I always think hanged should be hung. Hanged just sounds wrong

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    • I saw your name and it reminded me that I had a dream last night about carrots. It had something to do with harvesting them in the winter in Japan. haha

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      • kingofcarrotflowers

        Ha thats strange :)

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  • Terence_the_viking

    WHAT?

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