@ADHDForReal Sometimes it’s just the first connection my brain makes. I don’t always have time to both realise it’s not common vernacular, and figure out how people would normally say it.
@ADHDForReal I forgot the word caterer and tried to describe it using hand gestures. Just: mime, anyone?
@ADHDForReal Using "pretentious" to tell someone they're being overly wordy:
@ADHDForReal Alternatively, I don’t know that the word is a “fancy word”, for it is simple “a word” in my family.
@ADHDForReal My brain just hates reusing words, so whenever I get stuck on a piece of vocabulary, my mind will comb through different forms of speech in order to get my meaning across
@ADHDForReal i talk in metaphor because my brain is a worldwind of bullshit and im grasping for scraps as they fly by
@ADHDForReal I love the "why do you use big words." I don't *use* them, I THINK IN THEM. 😅
@ADHDForReal Not only this, I apparently am broken and literally can't say the word until I vizualise it too, so my brain starts throwing *related images* at me. I'm drowning under flood of information about manatees and pirates because I forgot the word "mermaid."
@ADHDForReal the vocabulary section of my brain looks like a chuck e cheese ticketblaster
@ADHDForReal Language is one of my special interests & I constantly want to learn more words that better convey my feelings in an effort to not be misunderstood. Unfortunately, it doesn’t often work that way. Plus, words are interesting!
@ADHDForReal Me, but I forget the words in my language and end up saying the english counterpart.
@ADHDForReal I couldn’t think of the word “couple” so I said people come into the restaurant I work at in pairs. My coworker still jokes about it years later
@ADHDForReal This and add being bilingual. 😭 I Forget words in one language or the other and can only remember words in the other language which the peoples I talk to often don’t understand. 😭
@ADHDForReal I hate when my vocabulary fails me and I have to find the best nearest word to finish my thought... And I'm not ADHD.
@ADHDForReal "Consequentamente, apprendi Portugues" -- Richard Feynman
@ADHDForReal I'm a little poetic. My accumulated vocabulary is large. I'm unlikely to find words I don't know, just ones I mispronounce. Often I use them for the pleasure of the way they sound. Sometimes to be pedantically specific to be understood, but it usually backfires & I never learn.
@ADHDForReal "chariots chariots" Cave Johnson is that you?
@ADHDForReal This is something I find myself often doing, or otherwise saying things in an unnecessarily verbose manner.
@ADHDForReal "did you swallow a bleedin' dictionary?" - "no, I ingested an exsanguinating lexicon"
@ADHDForReal And yet these words exist, wherefore should they not be used?🤔
@ADHDForReal @siliconebxtch Listen I’m a special kind of Smupid
@ADHDForReal Im jealous of people who pause for a brief moment and find the right word. Feels like i pause for an eternity and yet find the wrong word.
@ADHDForReal Yeah, vocabulary isn't my forte. It's even worse when I try to be specific, but people ends up understanding something else completely. Happened to me last year.
@ADHDForReal I also treat words like candy & like to illustrate meaning with specificity!
@ADHDForReal So that's why I talk fancily!
@ADHDForReal @FourteenToast2 This. This hit deep. 🤣🤣
@ADHDForReal a woman in Hull tells me her son doesn’t have a Hull accent: “he’s very posh, like you.” Ma’am, I’m American.
@ADHDForReal I feel like I have to use big words because I'm tired of getting misunderstood all the time
@ADHDForReal I got scolded for using the word “Sage” yesterday when talking about some advice my boss gave me because I guess I shouldn’t expect people to know what that means.