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07 Jan 2008, 10:44 pm

Hard to articulate for both writing and speaking for me, like when I would come home from school and my mom would ask me, "how was school" and all I could say to her was "fine" even if it wasn't, or when I am writing or typing something and it seems to come out differently then how it looks in my head, and takes longer to get down then I thought it would(like right now). I think I am little better at it then I was in the past, but could still use a lot of work on it. Guess the best thing to do would just keep practicing.


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15 Jan 2008, 3:46 pm

I was thinking about this earlier today while I was replying to another post. I'm like this too. Most of the time it takes me forever to write something. I have to keep asking myself "does this make sense?" It makes sense to me but my thoughts are all over the place and I'm not sure if the other person is really understanding what I'm trying to say. I feel like I have so much to say but I can't put it in the right words.

Even when I'm talking to people sometimes I have to think about what I'm going to say because my sentences will come out all broken and then I'm really making no sense.
This could be me telling a story: "So, then the bear.....it...............it............like.......the cave.....that thing.....and then those people came......wait, no.....first....hold on, let me think. Oooh okay, I remember now. Yeah, those people came and that was the end." I usually forget important details that I definitely should have added in.

This little bit took me fifteen minutes to write. I'm not even proud of it. I hope it made a little sense.



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17 Feb 2008, 5:12 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:
Not all Aspies are not articulate. I can be quite outgoing around the right type of people.

Tim

agreed


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17 Feb 2008, 10:09 pm

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I find that I am not articulate at all in describing my feelings and thoughts both orally and manually. I have also been living in an English speaking country since I was four and even earned college credit for AP English in high school.

I am definitely above average in intelligence and excel(at least that's what other people say) in science and math.

In fact, I read some posts by other people on this site and find many people here are more clear than me in describing how they are feeling and giving suggestions. When I post suggestions on other people's topics, I usually never leave long posts since I find it becomes very vague and sentences don't follow one another.

Although I am perfectly clear in how I am feeling, I just can't seem to describe it. It seems that everything in my mind is completely unorganized but I know intuitively exactly what is going on. I also tend to think very abstractly but have no problems in describing some idea that is purely logical. When I try to convert my ideas to words, it just doesn't come out in properly.

It took me about five minutes to write this.

Does anyone else face similar issues? Is this an aspie side-effect?


Took the words right out of my mouth...except I would've taken more than five minutes to type that.



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17 Feb 2008, 11:24 pm

I can definitely identify with this. I have a very hard time articulating, in both speech and writing. Even online I can't seem to find the right words to describe how I'm feeling(although it's much easier online rather than actually speaking -- I have more time to think about what I'm going to say)
I've also found that many people here seem to be much clearer than I am when making their posts -- so you aren't alone. This is the part I hate most about AS -- not being able to get my feelings across like I'd like to. But I'm working on it.



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18 Feb 2008, 3:31 am

yeah i find it hard to articulate :duh: