Do aspies have a learning disability?

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I can't recalled but I have ADHD so mostly likely no.

AS is a pervasive developmental disorder, though we are visual learners for sure - which can be hard as college and some high school teachers are usually verbal verbal verbal.

Addition: According to wikipedia, "Conditions that must be considered in a differential diagnosis include other ASDs, ... , nonverbal learning disorder, ... " meaning if you have one of the others, there's a smaller chance you have Asperger's too - depending on the disorder of course.

I have trouble in math and grammar I write like I am speaking.

I don't think aspies have a learning disability, we may learn differently then people who are NT's, since we
finally have a name for this condition, maybe we will be able to set a new learning standard for aspies as well.

I have procrastinational deficit, I have been crazy glued to my computer chair

I have a problem with math, and chemistry, plus i have a HUGE problem with procrastination

I had difficulties with Math, Physics and Chemistry (anything relating to numbers, formulas..)

I don't feel like I have a learning disability, and I never really did. I don't understand why I had to be put into Special Ed, when I didn't feel disabled and the other kids faired a lot worse than I did. The kids in those classes made excuses for their bad behaviour, blaming it on the fact that they had learning disabilities. I didn't really like that. I'm glad that I was mainstreamed, in high school. I don't have much to say about college. I never had the chance to follow my dreams. I was put into a special needs job training programme. I've felt that I was too advanced to be in that class. The professors didn't do me any favours. I was in that programme for two years, before I was doing the most mindless tasks in a diving suit factory. That was a waste of five years, out of my life. Two years in a special needs job training course, so I could do the least stimulating tasks in a factory.

No. I have never had any learning difficulties, although I do tend to procrastinate.

Asperger's is NOT a learning disability. Even if you have problems with a logical subject, one day it will just click.

Like most people with AS, I find English very hard (but I'm fortunate enough to be getting a high grade at it). I don't think English Literature is important, as it looks at things that aren't there.

I agree to an extent AS IS NOT A LEARNING DISABILITY. As for English I have problems grasping stuff hey hey look, study and work hard and I got an A!

I cannot spell to save my life . I guess that will be language disorder . And I have no idea how to use punctuation .

But I am highly gifted in mechanical abilities and spatial relations .

That's a great way to put it. That is how I feel too. I have terrible trouble with maths, which has made getting through all my core classes for my MBA a very stressful ordeal. I can't wait to get to the fraud classes (this summer, yay!). Unfortunately I also have to take my last core class this summer as well: Statistics.

Lol, same.

I've never been good at math. All through my school years on school reports I got "needs more work" or "is having trouble" on the math section. I did math tuition for a few months during intermediate school, which is where it was first noticed that I may have a learning disability, but I was never "officially" tested for anything.

seriously people AS IS NOT A LEARNING DISABILITY!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

That being said Einstein was (theorised to be) an Aspie. I just suspect that some of you are lazy because math is supposed to a good "trait"...

What are having problems with people?

Practice, practice, practice, practive makes perfect! practice makes perfect!, practice makes perfect!

I suspect you are lazy, given your spelling errors, 'screaming' in caps (lack of netiquette), and some missing words. Math may be easy for you, but it doesn't mean that it is easy for everyone. Nor does it mean that people who find math difficult are lazy. All people with autism being great in maths and sciences is a stereotype.

I am not good in math. I am a second-year graduate student; I have my BALS in Journalism, History, and Russian. I am most certainly not lazy.

Some people are simply not going to be good in certain things, no matter how much they practice.