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This is a well known issue for people with ADHD. You comprehend what is being said from context, not predicting the exact words the other person will say. There is a struggle with keeping one's self from talking over the other person with a response to what they are saying as that is rude. But one method of stopping ADHD behaviors is to tune everything out for a short moment which often leads to forgetting what you were even talking about in the first place. Another symptom of ADHD is retention of short term memory.
Lots of studies about all three of these things in ADHD individuals.
Take autism out of it for a moment and just consider the abstracted communication stream.
Person A has an idea that they want to communicate to Person B. They create a symbol string (ie words) of length N that they believe are isomorphic to that idea.
Person B believes that they have they have captured the entire isomorphism after <N symbols have been received. They start to send their own symbol string in response.
Person A receives this symbol string and decides that it cannot be produced by a process that is isomorphic to their own idea so they say something along the lines of, "No. Let me finish."
Based on available information, who is more likely to be correct in their assessment?
Do you need some more hay for your strawman?