this is the funniest shit to me because I am a terrible liar and it's always a last min choice between honesty and fluency. I try to only do it with people I know I won't see again like working customer service. lol I would also sneak to the back row and put this in the cringe file. I will always own up to lying if found out, most people go "awww" or laugh in a sort of "thats... weird but ...almost impressive" manner. Treatments never helped me (not interested, period) but I do this thing like actively coming up with alternative words to say the same thing to reach my point while speaking. I'll say the wrong time or the slightly wrong thing like instead of "fruit salad" I might just say "a bowl of, you know..." and list fruits which could be said more fluently at that moment. because I can list the fruits in whatever order is most fluent. how the hell I know the magic spell is beyond me. I wonder if people with hearing problems are doing this a bit when they are pretending to hear someone and have to hazard a response out of clue. that's plausibly an omission, honest mistake for the deaf! I too am straight up lying.