Trouble with word meanings?

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How I wield words would be a hit-miss.
It's not the meaning and the vocabulary I'm having trouble with per se, at least not by word alone.

But words themselves and how to place them in context -- that I may have trouble with.
Times I know what I'm supposed to say or write, except it came out wrong in various ways when I reread it again.
Then the most often cases would be forgetting vocabularies, despite remembering meanings and exact word's existence.


Usage of words and verbal language doesn't feel natural to me, even if I did performed well. It feels limiting in more ways than one.
But unnatural or not, it's not like I have any other choice.

Words themselves also gave me more trouble when people are involved -- expressively and receptively -- than any curse that autism brings.

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For me, the problem isn't so much that I fix on a certain word, but the opposite; whenever I see a sentence, my brain flits through all the possible readings. It's entertaining sometimes, when signs and headlines accidentally say something funny, but other times, it's annoying because it slows me down. My brain just won't stop picking at the words, even once I'm sure I know what the right reading is.

^ oh deary me

And someone put out an album (lord, I am old) titled "Islets of Langerhans"... let's ask Mr. Google... ah, Cousin Silas.

And I can't find it on Youtube. So this will have to do.

[quote="Fnord"]No trouble with the meanings of words.

LOTS of trouble with people who change the meanings of words to support their claims...

[quote="Lewis Carroll, in 'Through the Looking Glass'"][b]"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."[\quote].

Yes I am the same there. Earlier this year I had a major meltdown due to someone changing the meaning of a word to suit there claims. But what caused the meltdown was how many people were in support of the change of meaning.

Yes, there are times when a word might have 2 different contextual meanings;whereby, I sometimes I'm not always able to make the proper deciphering of said conundrum, i.e I screw up. Yeah, I'm always trying to make sure that I fully understand what someone is trying to say on a near constant basis.