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This is a question I have I don't know if it is Autism/Asperger related. I always wondered why my vocabulary is so limited. I have about a 6th or 7th grade vocabulary. I was always told it's from my learning disability: Auditory Processing Disorder. But I never understood why. Than I was told since the teachers always taught them verbally that's because. So that made sense since everything I learned in high school I don't remember unless it was visual. Also, I was told I have major difficulty in expressing myself verbally. I have word retrieval deficit. I also read online about a learning disability called Expressive Language Disorder, and that totally is another thing I have. It more goes in with the oral expression difficulty. Since I read about that learning disability I understood why my vocabulary is so limited. I have trouble learning new vocabulary. Sometimes I use words I have read or hear a bunch of times hoping it will fit usually it does other times people look at me like what did you just say?

I was just wondering would this difficulty in oral expression/expressive language disorder and auditory processing disorder any way go with Autism or Aspergers or is it totally something different?

Lots of people with autism have auditory processing issues and issues with expressive language.

Although, people with Asperger's typically have large vocabularies.

My verbal IQ had always been low and it went up every year.

I have a language processing disorder. I don't know much about it.
I sometimes struggle learning new words and understanding the meaning of them. I also don't always know what words to use as I speak. I have no idea what this is part of, I assume it's part of my learning difficulty.

I am one of those aspies who was never advanced in vocabulary even though I had been told in high school I used big words. Kids didn't know what "blunt" was or "taboo" or "defiant" or "forte" "Illogical" "logical" "agitated."
Well I was reading about AS and watching Benny & Joon and I learned these new words. Plus I learned some from my shrink I was seeing in high school. I used to pull out my brothers Children's Dictionary and look up words. The definitions were so easy I was able to understand them.

Sometimes I process things slow; other times I process things very fast. It fluctuates. Sometimes I use words I don't really know, and usually I use them correctly, other times the other person isn't advanced enough to understand what I just said, and other times I totally bomb it.

I had that difficulty. My occupational therapist called it my motor and she say my motor is running too fast and I needed to slow it down. That's another reason for the therapy I was doing. My mind be running so fast my mouth couldn't keep up with my thoughts. With people talking, I sometimes find I can't keep up. Kids thought I wasn't paying attention when I was in high school and I often got "Pay attention" when it was obvious I was in special ed. I had an aid with me. My mom told me they were just kids and they don't think that way and they just think I choose to not pay attention so that's why I'm in special ed. I also can't listen for long periods of the time so I tend to zone out and I don't process all the words because I didn't hear everything the teachers would say and listening too long puts me to sleep. I am not sure that that is part of, ADD or Language processing disorder or a overload I'm getting. All these words.

My main vocabulary is younger type but other times I use words my sister in High School doesn't even know. Sometimes someone would repeat what I said and ask what it means and I don't know how to describe it or know what it meant. I don't know where I get some of the words I use. I tried going to college and those words, were wow. I couldn't understand a thing I was reading.

That's for me too sometimes I process things slow other times really fast. I always got the Pay attention, sometimes still do. I guess I zone out as well. Sometimes I don't even realize the person is still talking to me. I always so yeah, oh okay and then when someone is like so what did i say? or what are your feelings on it? Than I am like I have no idea what you said.

Just last year I kept saying I got scared because I did, but then my grandpa was like did you mean you are startled and I just kind of sat there like what? I don't even know the difference. I still don't. Even if I get startled I am scared out of my skin.

I have the same thing Spokane_Girl I have trouble learning new words and understanding the meaning or where to put them in a sentence. In high school in English. Everyone would be learning new vocabulary words or know what the words were on the test. Even though we would go over them, I don't remember going over it or what they meant as well as never seen them in my life.

Actually, I glad you said that about the motor running too fast, Spokane_Girl. I have the same problem at times, sometimes I will talk so fast, or that the words or sentences will just come out. Sometimes now a days when in conversations, I can't keep up in one conversation, I fly into a whole different one not even finishing the first one.

What's ironic with me is that I've always had an "advanced" vocabulary skill level, but I've also had problem pronouncing some words even when I know how they sound. It's like my tongue literally trips over itself trying to say the word.

I have a fairly good vocabulary, although I can't use much of it as I have trouble expressing things. Something can be clear to me, but I can't get other people to try to understand it.