Bigwords bug people

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The other view:

1) If someone is a little slower than you, and can't handle the big words, then you really should be more considerate. Show some humility and use simpler words for them. Many slower people are still very decent people, and afterall, they never chose to be the way they are. If they're being as*holes, by all means, shoot them down, otherwise, show them the same consideration you ask for with your AS.
2) A lot of people use needless "big" words to try to appear smart. Although they should be tolerated because they're fairly harmless and just compensating, it's still annoying to listen to. Sometimes people will mistakenly think you're doing the same.

I do agree with most of what people on this thread are saying. I just think it's important to consider things from all angles.

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I'm sorry but all you guys (& gals if the case maybe) are coming off as extremely pompous and ignorant. It sounds like just because you have a bigger vocabulary or you are just using words you just found out the meaning of 2 seconds before hand then you are better than everyone else. I mean what If someone wants to be a musician or an athlete, do they need to know every word in the English dictionary and its meaning?

If it's part of your job then fair enough, but theres nothing better when you are hanging out with friends and family having a few cold beers and "dumbing" yourself down as people like to put it and basically relaxing. It's like if someone finds socializing easy then gives you a hard time just because you cant do this and that.

I think big words bug them because they don't know what they mean. If they don't know what they mean, then they don't understand what you are saying, it's like hearing a foreign language.

Yeah guess I must have and maybe this isn't the best place to be discussing this but it kind of bugs me in a way.

And Its not like most of the big words being used I don't know the meaning of, its just when someone keeps on using and using these big words, I just feel that they could have just as easily (and more quickly) made it simpler and not come off as acting like such an upper class snob.

Sorry if I'm wrong but its just the way I feel.

Wow guess I'm not autistic either. I'm not smart nor do I have any of these other symptoms Ive seen here. What the hell is wrong with me?

If you don't know what they mean, just ask them what do those words mean. Also I love learning new words.

Bugging people, big words topic

If I use a big word in NT company I always define it. This might bug them even more!

This topic is old. It has been resurrected (oops! big word!).

I took a journalism class years ago and the instructor always told us to KISS (keep it simple short) in terms of article length and vocabulary. This is easier to do in writing.

Go to a doctor who does tests on people to know what they have.

I found you have to be careful were you use big words, some people just don't like anything above their monosyllabic grunts. See I used monosyllabic not really a big word for most of us, but to most mouth breathers it may be quite insulting if they could understand what it meant. They may say, hey thats fancy talk Fag!

I wouldn't say I find big words a turn-off, though I understand people are annoyed when you use words they don't understand. I have a rendency to asume that people always knows a word when I know it.

I think that big words can scare people because its like we're speaking a different language, and it worries people that they don't speak the same language. That's the hassle with having AS in general: people don't understand, so they're afraid. But in being a victim, we can be sure not to share the same closed-mindedness.