What is it called when someone names a person every name in her family but their real name?

Question: When asking a question, she calls me every name in her family except my name.ie: "Daniel, Adam, Jeff, Lauren..will you go get the mail.?"(and my name is really Michael) She has two dogs and calls them the opposite of what their real name is.ie: Taylor go outside and go poddy..(the real name of the dog she is talkiing to is Shakira even tho she does have another dog named Taylor) What is this called.it drives me crazy and makes me laugh. She has been doing it for years. Please help. She calls it a disorder named "word salad" Any comments?

Answers:
I have two kids and I help my mother with my two sisters. Sometimes my brain just gets confused and I can't even think of one name. Other times I go through the list and give up saying whoever you are blah blah blah. I think with me I'm just distracted with the other million things running around in my head. I didn't start doing it until i had kids. My mom always did it and i'd try to help her with the name she was looking for. It was kinda funny then, but i get aggervated at myself. I should know my kid's name. LOL, oh well!

Other Answers:
Have kids and you'll find out what that;s all about! LOL. We did it, too, and I hated it when my mother did it!

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i think it's just old age. my grandma tells whole stories using the wrong names. I don't know what it is called but my mother had it and I inherited it from her. I do know that if your first name is matched with your middle name, you were in deep poop!

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Forgetful or old age!!

that's not normal "old age", it sounds like a form of dementia. "word salad" is a term for severely incoherent speech that is usually seen in the disorganized type of schizophrenia.

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