Do you have a hard time answering questions?

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I have obvious trouble with giving too much detail whether answering questions or writing posts. You can tell because I write some of the longest posts on this forum. The writing doesn't come easy either. It's just that it's very hard for me to control the length of an answer. And I see the world in such great detail that it's hard for me to go with shorter answers which are also often too abstract for me. 

I also have trouble with open-ended questions unless you get me at just the right moment. They just don't trigger me into the right words usually. I am fighting against that to write this reply and using a lot of difficult strategies. 

Also I have trouble --immense trouble -- when pressured to answer questions. Especially quickly. I had nightmarish experiences on chat with someone who would want answers to her questions before I was done typing other things. It was like... she'd ask. Then if I didn't immediately drop everything and answer, she'd start typing "You still haven't answered my question" after everything I said.  Which would put pressure on me to just give an answer any answer whether accurate or not so she would quit pressuring me. Then though if my answer was accurate but she believed it wasn't for some reason, she'd type "You STILL haven't answered my question." 

Situations like that are my idea of hell. The more pressure you put on me, the less energy to put into replying I have. This can lead to my old pre-real-communication tactic of giving any plausible response whether real or not. But I prefer to not use that tactic. So I will sit there trying to put pressure on to answer and drive myself into meltdown. And my real answers not being believed makes everything worse. I hate when people are fishing for a certain answer, it doesn't seem honest. 

Another dishonest questioning technique that can drive me to meltdown rapidly is when people ask "questions" that are really hostile little comments in disguise. Then if you refuse to answer they go all innocent "I was ONNNly asking a QUESSSSTion...". I used to get a lot of "questions" like that from a group of people who, if I did answer a question, would always have three more. And they were always prying into my personal life but it was my fault if I couldn't answer. 

I also have immense trouble with multiple choice questions where none of the answers even remotely fit. (Even worse if they're engineered that way, but bad enough when innocent.)  

I used to have difficulties answering Questions when I was young, until when I was 16 1/2 years old, I started to develop to answer Questions and I got a 90% on my test.

I have a hard time answering questions if the questions aren't specific.

I have a hard time speaking let alone answering questions.