How verbal are you?

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When I want to be, Im perfectly fine carrying conversations with people. Im verbally fluent with a pretty good vocabulary and I enjoy have long in depth conversations about topics I am interested in with other intelligent and interested people.
Verbally fluent does not always mean good at talking tho lol. If my brain moves faster than my mouth I end up tripping all over my words or awkwardly changing to a different word in the middle of one, and I sound as if I can barely speak English.
Personally tho, I prefer to be pretty quiet. And Im much better at writing and typing than actually talking.

When I was a kid tho I had an entire array of 'noises' that in my head all meant different things. My mother yelled at me for it all the time. I used to think I could get my point across sufficiently with different levels of what was essentially like whining and gesturing. <sigh> yeah....I was a strange little kid

This second, I'm barely verbal (Takes a lot of effort, I have to plan it out first and I want to be left alone.)

I'm verbally fluent and non-conversational, except with family members and maybe one close friend. I listen a lot more than I talk, unless I'm rambling about a special interest (in which case it's not a conversation, it's a lecture and I forget to gauge if other people are still listening, interested, etc.) I can hold a decent conversation through text or email, but face to face, I really only speak when asked a direct question, or if I have a question I want an answer to. I never say something just for the sake of engaging another person or starting a conversation. My diagnostic report says that I lack reciprocal social communication.

I used to have severe phone anxiety, and would put off making phone calls for as long as possible. After working at a job that required me to make a lot of cold calls (I no longer work there due to too many major meltdowns) it no longer really bothers me, but given the choice, I'll text people rather than call them, and listening to the voicemails people leave me still makes me very anxious, and I'll avoid it if at all possible.

I'm experimenting with using AAC a lot more in the hopes of conserving the large amount of energy that speaking and being socially "on" requires.

I'm verbally fluent but don't do a lot of talking.

It depends, because I'm also bipolar, I can go days without talking, or at most uttering single syllable non-words, and then the next week literally not be able to stop speaking, as well as spend the bulk of the remaining time I'm not ambushing people with lectures of topics they likely don't care about composing rhyming bars, sometimes >40 a day.

I said verbally fluent and conversional, but conversational is a relative thing.

If it's the right topic, I'll talk too much. If it's the wrong topic, I'll have trouble saying anything. Is that conversational?

I am not quite sure what to verbally fluent means however I know I’m not conversational With certain exceptions .

I want to talk to people but often don’t understand how to besides saying hi and how are you and have a nice day.

I do talk sometimes I would say I’m partially nonverbal sometimes . Sometimes I get stuck putting my thoughts into words .

I don’t know. I have a language disorder that could be part of it.