anyone here with an average or even a sub avg. vocabulary?

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Just wondering... cause I say I have a basic vocabulary and no where near the large vocabulary that most aspies have. But then again, I'm not an aspie so.....

Although I'm good with numbers and other logical things, language is not my strength. My vocabularies in English and in my first language, I believe, are both below average. I often feel unable to express myself because of that.

My vocabulary is quite low, thankfully I'm in country Australia so I can just throw in a few swear words and a mate or two and nobody knows the difference. I had a hard time writing essays and stuff at school because I would just write what I wanted to say and still be 2000 word off the minimum.

probably sub-average

I'm the exact opposite of this. I'm good with literacy and writing when I can completely think straight, but I can't do math to same my life.

I have always had a good vocabulary however I spend alot of time at shops and race tracks and with lower educated people like that so I think I tend to come off sounding like Larry the cable guy if he was a top university graduate when I talk, lots of big words coupled by some questionable grammer, no swearing though, no figureitive languge either. I need to get out of the habit of using words like "ain't" and lately I think I have as I spend more time alone. No one can understand what I say often without explaining, my creative writing skills are poor though along with my math skills.

For me it's that I don't know many big words so my words tend to be basic.

no less an intellect than einstein, said that it wasn't really necessary to have a large working vocabulary so long as one had themselves a good dictionary at the ready.

Maybe that's why I tend to enjoy reading your posts. They are always to the point and easy to understand.

I used to read the dictionary for fun as a kid, and memorize opera arias and poems, so I have an enormous vocabulary. But as you said, I sound like Larry the Cable Guy with a college degree (I have a college degree). I'm Southern and poor and I've picked up the idioms and syntax of those arround me, although I don't have a strong accent. I'm hopeless at math too.

I recognise a lot of words but I tend to not use them.

All the "big words" are an intellectual shortcut for the more educated.

Yeah, the art of sounding smart without nessisarily being smart....not to mention it sure helps take up space for those 5 page or longer college essays without being obvious

Yup. I'm not an aspie, but many aspies here have a large vocabulary and I don't know the meaning of like 90% of the words used on here. But who cares, even if expressed with a basic vocabulary, as long as what your saying makes sense, that's all that matters right?

i got a average vocabulary wutever that means.

Sometimes the big words can more accurately express what you're trying to say.