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Looks like this thread's a sticky now!

That's a good idea. BTW, I actually have NLD so if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Excellent! I will be watching it closely .

Yay, congrats, you did it ! !! ! I'm happy!! !!

so this will be the stickied thread? perhaps chg the thread title too just take out poll. eyah! gettin; sticky wit it!

i fit the profile better for nvld, but i think i have both aspergers and nvld. or can you have only one?

nah you can have both
here's one sentence from this paper.

http://www.nldontheweb.org/Dinklage_1.htm

ASPERGER's DISORDER AND NONVERBAL LEARNING DISABILITIES:
How are These Two Disorders Related to Each Other?

by David Dinklage, PhD


Studies conducted by the Yale Child-Study Group suggest that up to 80% of children who meet the criteria for AD also have NVLD.[u]

I kind of feel like I have NLD and aspergers. I have interests and sensory problems and lots of OCD-like stuff. But I am sociable, sort of. I dont know.

I voted for the sticky and I'm glad it's here.

I believe I definitely have NLD, and based on what I've learned about Asperger's, and what I've learned here on WP, it's likely I have AS too. But I've not been formally diagnosed, so I can't be sure.

When I was a teenager, I was diagnosed with a severe "organizational learning disability," with shadings of inattentive ADD (according to the neurologists & psychologists). This was before NLD & AS were even considered as diagnoses. Even the "hint" of ADD was just sort of whispered, as it was not yet common for girls to be considered ADD.

Still, the very astute neurologist recommended that I be switched from the fast-track school (where I was drowning) to an alternative high school that catered to kids with all kinds of learning issues.

My parents, while loving, just couldn't believe that their highly & precociously verbal daughter with the (supposedly) high IQ score (VIQ far higher than PIQ btw) needed such arrangements, and on I went in the advanced classes, drowning and feeling like a failure. My teachers couldn't believe it was anything but laziness and apathy, since I was supposedly "such a smart girl" "who writes better than the majority of the class" blah blah blah. I died every day trying to meet everyone's expectations. Finally they decided that I was not an intellectual (hah!), but a creative type (yeah, ok, but not fully true).

Anyone have similar experiences like this?

I feel odd (as alway.)./..

Because while I have a dx. of autism, I have almost all of the traits of NLD (except that I am quite good with advanced math, though I am HORRIBLE with arithmetic, NEED a calculator). And my IQ had verbal about 90 and performance about 77, so that's about a standard deviation apart. But outside of the tests, I don't think I could math a NONVERBAL learning disability, unless it was called Verbal and Nonverbal LD, because IRL I have lots of difficulty with speech and language and am only about 60-80% verbal.

So I don't think I could actually get this diagnosis, but considering how consistent I am with it otherwise, I am quite confused.

Its all very confusing really. I think that AS's DSM should be widened to include some forms of NLD. I think I am NLD but if I was asked whether I felt NT or AS I would have to say AS.