Another level of comprehension

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Do you also feel like you're on another level of comprehension?

Like when you talk, your ideas make perfect sense, and are grammatically and logically correct, the vocabulary is almost flawless, but still people don't get the right idea about what you're talking about.

With me, they often get a reductive idea of what i was telling them about and i have to reformulate in a way that they get all the sense of what i just said.

Does it happen to you?

PS: Sorry about my english, still learning.

I generally find that when I really understand something then I can't necessarily explain it well. I am a very visual thinker, so most if not all of the information I have on the topic is stored in the form of images. If I expect that I may have to explain it to someone then I do a bunch of scripting on the topic and prepare explanations, and then I can recite that when I am actually explaining it. If I didn't do that though then it would be very hard for me to explain it. For example I understand orbital mechanics very well, and this includes things like Hoffman transfers which I have not done any scripting on. I can do all the calculations for a Hoffman transfer no problem, but if you came up to me and asked me to explain what one is then I would be at a loss for words and it would sound like I knew almost nothing on the topic. If I had done scripting though then I sound very intelligent because I have had time to plan what I would say ahead of time.

I don't think that our understanding of a subject is any different then it is for neurotipicals (unless we have been obsessing over it), I think the problem is that we just have a harder time communicating what we have learned.

yeah.

just today i decided to return the calls i've been getting every day for about a week, they called me "jordan" even though i spelt out my name, in what i thought was a clear voice, more than a couple of times.

close enough for nuisances.