#youe addition was fully valid I just wanted to explain what I meant more

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If I may elaborate a little on that part, I said "expressing things in a complicated way is sometimes easier" specifically because I'm hyper verbal myself and sometimes it is easier but I then added the part you mention with the OR behind it because there are a lot of people (and this isn't specifically an ND thing in fact nt people do it more often) who purposefully use hard to understand language to appear smarter.

By that I am referring to academics and intellectuals or what not who are purposefully using confusing language for clout. It was in part referring to a recent blog I saw who was starting discourse/debates with people specifically using a vocabulary set that was so needlessly complicated that I was not able to understand almost a single word of it even if I looked up the definitions of the words I didn't know because it was so overwhelming.

I've experienced this a lot as I unfortunately have been raised around academics and can testify on how much of the language that is used is tied directly into the hatred and exclusion of undereducated people.

That's primarily what my point was about, and that's why I put those comments in because a lot of people think to make valid points you have to sound like a scholar and then will come for anyone who doesn't have the desire or ability to understand and talk like that and then act like they aren't intelligent enough to have opinions. (And while it didn't happen on this blog yet I have gotten hate comments for the way I talk when I'm typing informally specifically mocking my level of education so that also influenced the way I wrote this)

Now, all that to say that I tried to make that distinction without extending the post out even longer because I have a lot of adhders following who can't really read long posts too much. However, you couldn't have known all that, and I totally understand why the wording would come off as sounding patronizing of hyperverbal people who do have larger than normal vocabularies (also I feel like I should note that when I said a 5th grade level I was going off of a website that calculates the reading level of text, so it's a very rough estimate, and in hindsight I should have said at the level people who haven't graduated high school can understand with maybe looking up a word or two or just guessing what it means in context, as it is more accurate to my point).

So, I would like to make it clear that I am hyperverbal myself and FULLY support anyone who struggles to simplify their speech into easier to understand word choice because it is a skill and thusly takes an amount of energy that not everyone can be expected to have all the time.

So you're valid! It's just that a lot of ppl are really shitty about how they treat undereducated people on this site and everywhere else basically but I wanted to post something other than a rant about it that could also be like short and to the point essentially.

Alright but if you aren’t writing at a 5th grade level or lower, your posts are not accessible to

People with certain learning/cognitive disabilities

People who could not get a proper education

People with frequent brain fog/fatigue due to mental illness or physical disability

Like I know using academic words and phrases and expressing things in a complicated way is sometimes easier or if not it still feels great

But to really show and share understanding is to be able to simplify ideas to make them more accessible. The point of communicating isn’t for it to look nice, the point in communication is to be understood.