Unusual Word Choice

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ProfessorWorm

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Does anyone else use words/pet names that seem, to others at least, out of place in the conversation? I refer to my dearly beloved as humans, I use the word migration a lot relative to the amount of time I spend discussing actual migration and probably many others I haven’t noticed/remembered. It was something noted on my assessment as evidence I was autistic so curious how common it is.
 
as I communicate through AAC I’ve found people can get a bit weird about my words or humour which comes out in what I write.
I use ‘humans’ to,but From both the view of being a human owned by cats and also I’ve never related to humans either.

i don’t have a huge vocab and I also have learning (intellectual) disability on top of my ‘flavour’ of autism,I do wonder if academic intelligence has anything to do with the big vocabs in some flavours of autism,my dad who is informally diagnosed with aspergers has the not the biggest but the craziest vocab I’ve ever known,a lot of his terms and words are from growing up in Ireland,more than aspergers I think as I hear it from my totally NT mum to (she’s from Northern Ireland,again strange/funny vocab to me).
 
I think it's also partly that we tend to be less influenced by "the herd" so where most people "conform" we tend to stick to our own terms as we are less likely to change and care less about what others think. I find myself very adverse to buzz words and detest them and keenly watch them come and go to be replaced by the next buzz word. I have noticed how over the last decade phrases that mean action have become less and less about the action expected. "I will come back to you" has replaced "I will get back to you". I prefer the former because it's less confusing. "To come" describes an act of physical movement from one location to another yet you just picked up the phone or wrote an email. I don't know if this is office culture. I hear a lot of phrases used that mean something totally different and are referring to what is assumed as a direct action very indirectly.