[KatyaV]

I’m also neurodivergent and have learned to overcome this problem by associating the sound of the word/how the word looks like with a particular picture or concept in my mind. I think this is how babies learn language, by relating the contextual application of the word to its sound and tone. So maybe repeating the word while thinking of a related image or sense which is easy to recall during the appropriate conversational context will help. Alternatively, it might help to have “pre-set” phrases in your head to reduce the amount of pauses you make. This is something children learn through reading a lot when they’re little, which allows them to intuitively pick up the author’s sentence structure and colloquialisms (you might notice a child starts talking in the manner of a long and wordy book they’ve just read). However, the degree of difficulty of this depends on your natural born verbal reasoning abilities. So if you’re finding it harder to pick up sentence structure and incorporate it into your own speech, it just means you need to try a bit harder. Something which helps is attempting to imitate the style of the author through writing– as you consciously replicate their choices in diction, you learn new vocabulary or new literary techniques and actively incorporate them in your writing. Hope this helps!