Is it normal to habitually forget words?

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I think most of my friends would back me up in saying I'm an intelligent person with good verbal skills, yet I have a horrible tendency to habitually forget words. I'm only 19 and I don't abuse substances, so I don't understand how it is that I incessantly lose track of common words. I know the word I'm looking for, and I can list every synonym for it, but the word I'm looking for won't surface.

For example, yesterday I couldn't find the word "camouflage" and it was bugging me all day.

Am I crazy? Or do other people have this problem?

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  • sheven
    9 years ago

    It's a psychological thing where when you're trying to think of the word, your mind tries to help you by blocking words which are not the one you are looking for but you also inadvertedly block the word that you are looking for so you end up racking your brain forever for it.

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  • pantoffels
    13 years ago

    what you explained there is exactly what i go thru all the time. some days are worse than others. also noticed there are certain people that when i speak to them i tend to forget words more often. makes me feel like such a retard sometimes

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  • zEropoint
    13 years ago

    yeah, to me that seems perfectly...

    um...

    perfectly... uh...

    what's that word?

    :-)

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  • hotchickie81
    14 years ago

    Happens to me too.

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  • loverofpublictransportation
    14 years ago

    This often happens to me. Many times it ends up making me sound rather stupid because I resort to simple words when the longer one refuses to come out... Also, a similar problem with the same result is that words just don't SEEM right, you know? I speak multiple languages, and that is what I usually attribute this problem to... It's hard enough remembering all the words of one language, let alone the three that I try to cram in!

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    • hotchickie81
      14 years ago

      I must say I like your name! :) Hooray for public transportation! I park my car and take the bus (30 mins each way) every day, and I LOVE it!

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