Do You Suffer from Foot in Mouth Disease?

Do you know it can be a key trait of a neurological condition?

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Are you constantly having to guard what you say for fear of putting your foot in it? Do you think you struggle with this more than other people do?

“A Closed Mouth Gathers no Foot”

I typed this out in big letters and stuck it on the mirror in the bathroom so that I would read it every day.

I would try really hard to keep my mouth closed and not unwittingly cause offence.

I even tried keeping a chart, with the idea that I would put a cross next to each day when I had managed to not say something stupid. I was full of hope that I might get to the end of the month with a perfect calendar of crosses.

I failed. As soon as the first gap in the chart appeared. On Day 3. I gave up. I like things to look neat and I had already ruined it

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I have to concentrate hard in real life, to be careful about what comes out of my mouth. It is exhausting. If my brain were a filing cabinet, it would be overflowing. There is a huge section entitled: “Don’t…